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Architecture

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/ˈɑːrkɪtektʃər/nounCommon term

In software engineering, architecture means: The high-level structure of a software system: its main parts, how they communicate with each other and the key technical decisions behind them.

In Turkish: mimari, yazılım mimarisi, sistem mimarisi

How it is used

Teams design, review, document and change their architecture. You will hear 'architecture diagram', 'architecture review', 'event-driven architecture' and 'This doesn't fit our architecture.'

Example sentences

  1. Before we split the service, let's draw the current architecture on the whiteboard.

  2. The architecture review flagged the single shared database as a risk.

Common collocations

  • software architecture
  • architecture diagram
  • architecture review
  • event-driven architecture
  • system architecture
  • design patternA proven, reusable solution to a common design problem in code, such as Singleton, Factory or Observer, described as a general approach rather than finished code.
  • microservicesAn architecture in which an application is built as many small, independent services, each with one job, that talk to each other over the network.
  • scalableAble to handle more users, data or traffic by adding resources, without a complete redesign and without becoming much slower.
  • trade-offA situation where getting more of one good thing means accepting less of another, such as speed versus accuracy or simplicity versus flexibility.
  • tech stackThe set of programming languages, frameworks, databases and tools that a team uses to build and run a product.

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