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Dictionary of Software Architecture

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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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John Spacey. "Dictionary of Software Architecture." Simplicable. Retrieved August 10, 2026. from https://simplicable.com/IT/software-architecture
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