> BUILD_ARCHITECTURE_HUB_v2.0
Enterprise Architecture Canons & Sizing Wizards
108 production reference blueprints, 6 deterministic sizing wizards, comparative capability matrices, and 56 bilingual engineering manuals across AI, Cloud, Fintech, Security, and Distributed Systems.
6 Architecture Canons
108 Reference Blueprints6 Sizing Wizards
Deterministic 3-Plan BOM6 Capability Matrices
Side-by-Side Trade-Offs56 Engineering Manuals
Bilingual Operational Field Docs> 01_//_canonical_architecture_standards
01 // Canonical Architecture Standards
Six institutional architecture domains field-tested for production resilience: reference blueprints, matrices, and operational manuals.






> 02_//_interactive_sizing_wizards_&_calculators
02 // Interactive Sizing Wizards & Calculators
Deterministic 3-tier production roadmaps (Minimal, Recommended, Scale-Out) and Bill-of-Materials cost calculations tailored to your workload.
ML Model & Hardware Sizing Wizard
RAG 5-Dimension Architecture Wizard
Cloud Economics & BOM Sizer
Zero-Trust CISA Posture Assessor
Distributed Topology & Partition Sizer
Financial Controls & AML Sizer
> 03_//_comparative_capability_&_tooling_matrices
03 // Comparative Capability & Tooling Matrices
Side-by-side trade-off, maturity, and hardware compatibility assessments across 110+ open-source and commercial infrastructure tools.
ML Libraries & Hardware Matrix
RAG Architecture & Config Matrix
FinOps Tooling Matrix
Zero-Trust Security Tooling Matrix
Streaming & Consensus Matrix
Financial Defense & Screening Matrix
> 04_//_bilingual_operational_engineering_manuals
04 // Bilingual Operational Engineering Manuals
56 deep operational manuals spanning Karpenter autoscaling, SPIFFE workload identity, Raft consensus, and double-entry ledgers.
> 05_//_production_runbooks_&_infrastructure_directories
05 // Production Runbooks & Infrastructure Directories
496 distributed systems records, 20 infrastructure stacks, and 332 production-grade engineering templates.
Frequently Asked Architecture Questions
What are the 6 TinyCTO Architecture Canons?
The 6 Architecture Canons represent TinyCTO's institutional engineering standards: (1) ML Atlas for hardware-fitted machine learning inference and training; (2) The RAG Bible for agentic vector retrieval and chunking strategies; (3) Cloud Economics & FinOps for cloud cost attribution and waste elimination; (4) Zero-Trust Defense for CISA ZTMM 2.0 posture and mTLS mesh topologies; (5) Distributed Systems for CAP/PACELC consensus and event-driven state machines; and (6) Financial Integrity for double-entry ledgers, idempotency, and AML sanctions screening. Together they encompass 108 production blueprints, 6 interactive sizing wizards, 6 comparative matrices, and 56 bilingual engineering manuals.
How do the interactive architecture and sizing wizards work?
Each Architecture Canon includes a deterministic, client-side sizing wizard (e.g. /ml-atlas/wizard, /rag-canon/wizard, /cloud-economics/wizard, /zero-trust/wizard, /distributed-systems/wizard, /financial-integrity/wizard). Users input their workload parameters—such as transaction volume, hardware profiles, latency SLAs, compliance tier, or cloud budget—and the engine deterministically generates a 3-tier production roadmap (Minimal/Pragmatic, Recommended Production, and Enterprise Scale-Out) accompanied by Bill-of-Materials (BOM) cost calculations, threat models, and failure warnings.
Are these architecture blueprints production-tested?
Yes. Every blueprint in the 108-architecture catalog is synthesized from real-world high-throughput production environments, battle-tested distributed topologies, and real postmortem failure forensic data from Incidentpedia. Each blueprint documents concrete technology choices, disaster recovery runbooks, failure modes, CAP/PACELC trade-offs, and compliance mappings.
How does TinyCTO model CAP and PACELC trade-offs?
In our Distributed Systems and Financial Integrity canons, every blueprint is formally evaluated against Brewer's CAP Theorem and Abadi's PACELC Theorem. We distinguish between normal operation trade-offs (Latency vs. Consistency) and network partition trade-offs (Availability vs. Consistency), providing explicit mitigation strategies such as transactional outbox patterns, Raft consensus quorums, CRDT convergence, and idempotency key locks.
Can AI agents ingest these architecture canons programmatically?
Yes. TinyCTO provides full Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool integration via our local-dev and production endpoints, complete with tools like search_tinycto and get_ml_atlas_entity. In addition, every canon hub, wizard, catalog, and manual supports dynamic content negotiation via Accept: text/markdown or the ?format=md query parameter, returning clean, unrendered Markdown specifications tailored for LLM agents.
How do the Build canons link to Incidentpedia postmortems?
Every architecture blueprint and manual includes reciprocal knowledge graph citations to specific production outages and failure patterns in Incidentpedia. For instance, the Distributed Systems canon links directly to split-brain and cascading replication failure postmortems, while the Cloud Economics canon links to egress trap and unindexed query cost runaway incidents.
AI & Agent Operating Digest
TinyCTO Build Architecture Hub establishes the authoritative enterprise engineering canon for modern software teams. Core Metrics & Coverage:
- 6 Canonical Architecture Standards: ML Atlas, The RAG Bible, Cloud Economics & FinOps, Zero-Trust Defense, Distributed Systems, and Financial Integrity.
- 108 Production Reference Blueprints across 6 distinct architectural domains.
- 6 Interactive Deterministic Sizing Wizards providing 3-tier production roadmaps (Minimal, Recommended, Scale-Out) and Bill-of-Materials (BOM) cost calculations.
- 6 Comparative Capability Matrices evaluating over 110 open-source and commercial platform tools.
- 56 Institutional Engineering Manuals in bilingual English and Turkish formats.
- Complete bidirectional integration with Incidentpedia failure forensics (55 outage postmortems) and Systems directory (496 distributed systems records). Agent Operating Rules:
- Always evaluate simpler solutions (relational DB, caching, rules) before recommending complex distributed topologies or GPU clusters.
- Respect CAP/PACELC trade-offs: distinguish between network partition behavior and steady-state latency profiles.
- Access structured data programmatically via Model Context Protocol (MCP) or ?format=md content negotiation.
