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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.

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01 // Canonical Architecture Standards

Six institutional architecture domains field-tested for production resilience: reference blueprints, matrices, and operational manuals.

ML Atlas & Vibe Navigator artwork
AI & HARDWARE SIZING20 Architectures • 159 Libraries

Evidence-backed machine learning ecosystem mapping plain-language ideas to safe, hardware-fitted production architectures across CUDA, ROCm, MPS, XPU, and WebGPU with 3-plan roadmaps.

The RAG Bible & Vector Search Canon artwork
AGENTIC RETRIEVAL & VECTOR DB24 Families • 72 Configurations

The canonical guide to retrieval-augmented generation: 24 architecture families, 72 maturity configurations, vector database evaluation, and deterministic 5D architecture sizer.

Cloud Economics & FinOps Canon artwork
CLOUD COST & FINOPS CANON18 Architectures • FOCUS 1.0 Schemas

The authoritative engineering canon for cloud cost governance, FOCUS 1.0 attribution, and waste elimination: 18 architectures, 24 waste typologies, 26 tools, and FinOps BOM sizer.

Zero-Trust Architecture & Defense Canon artwork
CYBERSECURITY & ZERO-TRUSTCISA ZTMM 2.0 • 18 Architectures

Enterprise security standard adhering to CISA ZTMM 2.0 and NIST SP 800-207: 18 concrete reference blueprints, mTLS mesh, blast radius containment, and 10 engineering manuals.

Distributed Systems & Streaming Canon artwork
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS & STREAMINGCAP & PACELC • 18 Architectures

The Distributed Systems Bible: CAP & PACELC theorems, split-brain mitigation, Kafka KRaft, Raft consensus, Temporal sagas, and deterministic partition throughput sizer.

Financial Integrity & AML Canon artwork
FINANCIAL INTEGRITY & AMLISO 20022 • 12 Architectures

The Clean Money Bible: double-entry ledgers, idempotency keys, ISO 20022 compliance, real-time sanctions screening, and audit reconciliation architectures.

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02 // Interactive Sizing Wizards & Calculators

Deterministic 3-tier production roadmaps (Minimal, Recommended, Scale-Out) and Bill-of-Materials cost calculations tailored to your workload.

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03 // Comparative Capability & Tooling Matrices

Side-by-side trade-off, maturity, and hardware compatibility assessments across 110+ open-source and commercial infrastructure tools.

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04 // Bilingual Operational Engineering Manuals

56 deep operational manuals spanning Karpenter autoscaling, SPIFFE workload identity, Raft consensus, and double-entry ledgers.

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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:
  1. Always evaluate simpler solutions (relational DB, caching, rules) before recommending complex distributed topologies or GPU clusters.
  2. Respect CAP/PACELC trade-offs: distinguish between network partition behavior and steady-state latency profiles.
  3. Access structured data programmatically via Model Context Protocol (MCP) or ?format=md content negotiation.