Architecture & Systems
How systems are shaped: coupling and cohesion, microservices and monoliths, APIs and platforms, and the organizational physics — Conway's law and its maneuvers — that architecture cannot escape.
97 terms filed here — every definition a credited primary source.
- abstraction layerDevOps for the Modern Enterprise
- access layerDevOps for the Modern Enterprise
- ACIDWhat can go wrong with data...will!
- application monolithTeam Topologies, First Edition
- application programming interface (API)7 books define this
- badge engineeringPlatforms: Perfectly Portable Productivity Propellants?
- blueprintImproving Developer Experience with a Developer Platform at U.S. Bank
- Boolean LogicMaking Work Visible, Second Edition
- bounded context2 books define this
- broker or abstraction layerHybrid-Clouds: How to Go Slow and Haemorrhage Money Doing It
- Chips to CSSFull Stack Teams, Not Engineers
- choke and releaseHave Your Cake and Eat It: VMWare IT Adoption of PKS
- circuit breaker patternKeyOps: An Operations Story
- citizen model of integrationIts Time For...ERP Disruption
- closed systemIndustrial DevOps
- cloudDevOps for the Modern Enterprise
- cloud computingCloud Data Journey: Story Of Adopting Cloud Technology and Modernization of Data Pipeline
- cloud native applicationDevOps for the Modern Enterprise
- cold startThe Value Flywheel Effect
- compilersDevOps for the Modern Enterprise
- compute environmentsDevOps for the Modern Enterprise
- Conway's Law1 book · 2 talks
- COTS productDevOps for the Modern Enterprise
- coupling1 book · 2 talks
- curated choiceHybrid-Clouds: How to Go Slow and Haemorrhage Money Doing It
- cyber-physical systemsIndustrial DevOps
- DAGBringing a Legacy Company Into Today's World
- data engineerYour Data Nerd Friends Need You
- Data lakeWar and Peace and IT: Glossary
- decoupled architecturesTaming Complexity - The Rise of Platform Engineering in Enterprises
- decoupling of systemsDevOps for the Modern Enterprise
- DependencyMaking Work Visible, Second Edition
- Digital EcosystemUnbundling the Enterprise: Glossary of Terms
- domain complexityTeam Topologies, First Edition
- Domain-Driven Design3.1: Challenge
- duct tape engineeringWhen Ops Swallows Dev
- emergent architectureIntentional Architecture in Agile Organizations
- enablersProject to Product
- end-state architectureDevOps for the Modern Enterprise
- function callDevOps for the Modern Enterprise
- functional or semantic couplingACCOUNTING VS. PHYSICS – Coordination Costs and How Organizations Win
- golden path platformFrom 4 Releases a Year, To Once Every Other Minute, In the Public Sector
- Government as a PlatformGovernment as a Platform and Covid-19 – How Shared Platforms Enabled New Services To Be Built In Under a Week
- headless productUnbundling the Enterprise
- high cohesionOutput to Outcome: An Operating Model for the Age of AI
- horizontal scaling2 books define this
- hybrid cloud1 book · 1 talk
- HypervisorWar and Peace and IT: Glossary
- integrate/change processProgressive Delivery
- Integration ModelProject to Product
- interfaceIndustrial DevOps
- intersourceBank on Open Source for DevOps Success
- isomorphicWiring the Winning Organization
- joined-at-the-database monolith2 books define this
- Legacy estateWar and Peace and IT: Glossary
- Loose coupling2 books define this
- Microservice2 books define this
- middlewareDevOps for the Modern Enterprise
- Model Deployment Hardware configurationSystemic Controls for Managing Risk in AI/ML Systems
- Modularity2 books define this
- monolithic applicationsDevOps for the Modern Enterprise
- monolithic model2 books define this
- open systemIndustrial DevOps
- outer platformTeam Topologies
- packaged business capabilitiesadidas Capability Diamond
- PerlDevOps for the Modern Enterprise
- Platform2 books · 1 talk
- platform engineering1 book · 1 talk
- platform team5 books define this
- pulling modelDevOps for the Modern Enterprise
- Refactoring4 books define this
- Reference data problemWar and Peace and IT: Glossary
- reverse Conway maneuver3 books · 2 talks
- Runtime couplingWiring the Winning Organization
- scale up/verticalDevOps for the Modern Enterprise
- scaling verticallyCloud Native Architectures
- SCORPS (security, cost, OpEx, reliability, performance)The Value Flywheel Effect
- serverlessModernizing IT Operations in the Age of DevOps
- Serverless computing2 books define this
- service-oriented architecturesThe DevOps Handbook
- side effectsForging a Functional Enterprise: How thinking Functionally Transforms Line-of-Business Applications
- software-defined everythingIndustrial DevOps
- stateful callsDevOps for the Modern Enterprise
- stateless callsDevOps for the Modern Enterprise
- strangler applicationThe DevOps Handbook
- strangler pattern2 books · 1 talk
- System1 book · 1 talk
- systems of recordDevOps for the Modern Enterprise
- Systems Thinking2 books define this
- technology stackDevOps for the Modern Enterprise
- thinnest viable platformTeam Topologies, First Edition
- tool networkProject to Product
- twelve-factor applicationDevOps for the Modern Enterprise
- underutilizationStrategic Decision-Making in Cloud Services
- Value NetworksUnbundling the Enterprise: Glossary of Terms
- X-as-a-Service modeTeam Topologies, First Edition
- XaaSDevOps for the Modern Enterprise