Dictionary of Software Architecture

Software architecture is the structure of software. Architecture can be planned upfront and/or emerge over time. This includes elements such as services, layers, components, relationships, technologies, standards, principles, conventions and constraints. Architecture can be evaluated based on business objectives in areas such as cost, functionality, reliability, maintainability and operability. In other words, a poor architecture can be costly, unreliable and difficult to maintain, operate, change and extend. The following are common software architecture terms.

Abstraction	Algorithms
Application Server	Asynchronous Processing
Backward Compatibility	Business Capabilities
Business Processes	Business Rules
Complexity Hiding	Conceptual Architecture
Data	Data Architecture
Design Abstraction	Design Debt
Design For Scale	Event Driven Architecture
Forward Compatibility	Future-Proofing
Graceful Degradation	Information Security
Integration	Layers
Logical Architecture	Machine Biases
Master Data	Microservices
Modular Design	Precomputation
Privacy By Design	Push Technology
Reference Data	Reliability Engineering
Separation Of Concerns	Service Architecture
Single Point Of Failure	Smart Endpoints
Software Components	Software Entropy
Software Quality	Solution Architecture
System Architecture	System Of Systems
Transaction Processing	Worse Is Better

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