Architecture Reference

Marius's architecture build reference for automation and software-system design.

Use this wiki as a design reference: route the question, inspect the chapter, then use the embedded graphics as the durable model for app and system design. Coverage metadata stays explicit so gaps are visible instead of implicit.

Fast Routing

• Architecture Source Map: chapter
• Algorithms and Decision Models: chapter
• API Gateways and Contracts: chapter
• Service Communication: chapter
• Web Request Lifecycle: chapter
• Networking, Protocols, and Edge: chapter
• Identity, Access, and Auth: chapter
• Application Security: chapter
• Cloud Infrastructure and IaC: chapter
• Containers and Orchestration: chapter
• Deployment, Release, and Versioning: chapter
• Backend Service Architecture: chapter
• Frontend Architecture and Performance: chapter
• Database Foundations: chapter

Chapters

• Architecture Source Map
• Algorithms and Decision Models
• API Gateways and Contracts
• Service Communication
• Web Request Lifecycle
• Networking, Protocols, and Edge
• Identity, Access, and Auth
• Application Security
• Cloud Infrastructure and IaC
• Containers and Orchestration
• Deployment, Release, and Versioning
• Backend Service Architecture
• Frontend Architecture and Performance
• Database Foundations
• Database Performance and Indexing
• Caching and Rate Limiting
• Messaging, Events, and Streaming
• Data Pipelines and Analytics
• Search, Retrieval, and RAG
• AI Models and LLM Systems
• AI Agents and Tool Use
• Software Architecture Patterns
• Domain Modeling and Clean Architecture
• Testing, Quality, and Code Health
• Observability, Reliability, and Debugging
• Performance, Scalability, and Capacity
• Concurrency, Runtime, and Scheduling
• Platform Selection and Tradeoffs

Generated Lookup Files

• catalog.md: chapter map and corpus seed overview
• coverage.md: page coverage and low-confidence ranges
• source-ledger.md: PDF extraction ledger
• source-registry.json: curated corpus registry
• topic-registry.json: topic routes, keywords, coverage, and related topics
• index.json: machine-readable routes and source pointers
• visual-candidates.json: ranked graphics candidate list
• visual-redraw-plan.md: selected-signal graphics plan
• visual-inventory.json: Fireworks redraw inventory and review status
• visual-review-ledger.json: source-faithful acceptance ledger
• visual-provenance.md: visual provenance and rebuild boundary
• graphics-audit.md: full-PDF signal coverage and diagram QA

Corpus Boundary

• corpus-pages: 442
• mapped-pages: 442
• low-confidence-pages: 106
• extraction-date: 2026-06-16T13:38:33.478Z
• source-sha256: d7d5b77acaf501ceed0d41f07162d8dc3cdf6b6253a089817678477e3be4bc45
• raw-cache: .cache/architecture-reference/source-corpus/

Raw PDF, page text, OCR artifacts, screenshots, page renders, thumbnails, and intermediate JSON stay under the ignored cache. Build-reference graphics live in diagrams/; page renders stay ignored.