Tag: architecture
Mixture of Experts (MoE)
Neural network architecture where a gating network routes each token to a small subset of specialist 'expert' sub-networks, enabling huge total parameter counts at moderate per-token compute cost.
2mo ago
AI / ML advanced
Message Queue Patterns
Core messaging patterns — competing consumers, scatter-gather, request-reply, message filter, and routing slip — solve recurring distributed communication challenges.
3mo ago
Messaging intermediate
MVC Pattern
PHP 5.0+
Model-View-Controller — an architectural pattern separating data (Model), presentation (View), and request handling (Controller), the foundation of Laravel, Symfony, and most PHP frameworks.
3mo ago
Architecture beginner
Message Serialisation
JSON (readable, flexible), Avro (schema-enforced, compact, Kafka standard), Protobuf (typed, 5-10x smaller) — matching format to volume and schema requirements.
3mo ago
Messaging intermediate
Multi-Cloud vs Single-Cloud
Multi-cloud reduces vendor lock-in but doubles operational complexity — most lock-in comes from cloud-native services not the platform itself.
3mo ago
Cloud advanced
Materialized Views
PHP 5.0+
Pre-computed query results stored as a real table — dramatically faster reads for expensive aggregations at the cost of periodic refresh overhead.
3mo ago
Performance advanced
Microservices
PHP 5.0+
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An architectural style that structures an application as a collection of small, independently deployable services organised around business capabilities.
3mo ago
Architecture advanced
Monolithic Architecture
A single deployable unit containing all application concerns — often the right starting point before extracting microservices.
3mo ago
Architecture beginner
Monorepo vs Polyrepo
Monorepos store multiple packages/services in one repository enabling atomic cross-service changes; polyrepos give each service independent versioning.
3mo ago
Architecture intermediate
MVC Pattern
PHP 5.0+
1
Model-View-Controller — an architectural pattern that separates data (Model), presentation (View), and request handling (Controller).
3mo ago
Architecture beginner