Terminology

2225 terms, tools, patterns and metrics an architect is expected to use precisely. Each one gets a short explanation of what it is, and — where it matters — what it is commonly confused with. Search filters as you type; the column headers sort.

All areas2225 Architecture Fundamentals77 Distributed Systems107 Data Architecture110 Cloud Architecture94 Networking88 API & Integration Architecture82 Reliability & Resilience75 Observability70 Performance & Capacity Engineering72 Security Architecture86 Cost Architecture & FinOps71 Business Architecture67 Architecture Communication67 Enterprise Architecture66 Legacy Modernization71 AI-Era Architecture74 Software Architecture & Engineering71 Architecture Patterns71 Architecture Decision-Making63 The Architect's Meta-Skills61 Delivery & Release Engineering66 Platform Engineering & Developer Experience70 Testing & Quality Architecture66 Data Platform Architecture69 Streaming & Real-Time Data69 Data Governance & Semantics74 Frontend & Experience Architecture66 Edge, Mobile & IoT68 Regulatory & Data Protection Architecture65 Assurance, Audit & Model Risk69

Kind Any concept801 practice736 pattern377 metric127 case-study77 tool62 protocol45

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Term	Kind	Topic	What it is
Device Class Baseline Reference Device, Slow-Tier Baseline	practice	Web Performance Budgets	A named device and network profile, chosen from the slow end of your real user population, against which every performance budget and acceptance test is measured - so that "fast" means fast for the users who a…
Long Task Main-Thread Blocking Task, Long Animation Frame	metric	Web Performance Budgets	Any single piece of work holding the browser's main thread for more than 50 ms, during which no input is handled and nothing is painted - the unit in which an unresponsive page is actually measured.
Performance Budget Enforcement	practice	Web Performance Budgets	A stated limit on bundle size or a timing metric that fails a build when exceeded, which is what turns performance from a periodic project into a constraint.
Third-Party Weight Budget Tag Budget, Non-Application Script Allowance	metric	Web Performance Budgets	An enforced allowance for scripts the application build does not produce - count, bytes and main-thread time - with a named owner and a technical enforcement point, because these are the scripts a bundle-size …
Web Performance Budget	practice	Web Performance Budgets	An enforced limit on payload size, resource counts or timing metrics, checked automatically so regressions fail the build rather than accumulating.