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
Table Maintenance Budget Maintenance Capacity Reservation, Housekeeping Window	practice	Workload Isolation	Treating compaction, clustering and snapshot expiry as a workload class with its own reserved compute and a guaranteed window, rather than as low-priority work that loses to every deadline.
Warehouse Concurrency Scaling	concept	Workload Isolation	Adding compute clusters to absorb concurrent queries rather than queueing them, and the cost behaviour that turns a queue into a bill.
Workload Isolation	practice	Workload Isolation	Preventing one team's expensive query or backfill from degrading everyone else's analytics, by separating compute rather than sharing one pool.