Architecture Definition Document

In the Ultra Transcenders books

OGEA-101OGEA-102

Each book explains Architecture Definition Document in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.

Terms in this definition

• Index field attributes

  Settings applied to each field in an Azure AI Search index: searchable for full text, retrievable to return it, filterable for exact-match $filter, sortable, facetable for counts, and key for the unique document ID.

• Deliverable

  A formally reviewed output, specified in a contract, that stakeholders agree to and sign off.

• State

  A parameter in OAuth that carries custom data through the authorisation flow and back, as with the "Support state parameter" option in APIM.

• Baseline

  A formally reviewed and approved specification that may afterwards be altered only under formal change control. The word also describes the architecture as it stands today.

Related terms

• Access package assignment manager

  An entitlement management role, scoped to a catalog, whose holders can add users to or remove them from access packages that already exist. They cannot create or change the packages themselves or the policies attached to them.

• Actions for noncompliance

  What a compliance policy does, in order, when a device fails it. Marking the device noncompliant always happens, at day 0 unless you add a grace period; you can also send an email or push notification, lock the device remotely or put it on the retire list.

• ANSI mode

  A stricter Spark SQL behaviour, enabled by default since Apache Spark 4.0 (so also in Fabric Runtime 2.0), where a bad cast or an integer overflow fails the query rather than quietly producing null. Functions such as try_cast, try_add and try_divide keep the old null result, while switching ANSI mode off should be treated as a temporary workaround.

• Append blob

  Block-based blob tuned for writes that only add to the end, such as logs. Access tiers cannot be applied to it.

• Architecture Requirements Specification

  The quantitative partner of the Architecture Definition Document, setting out measurable criteria any implementation has to meet to conform with the architecture.

• Audit attributes

  Columns you can choose to add to fact or dimension tables to log the history of each row, such as the date it was inserted, the date it was last updated, or which ETL job made the change.

• Automatic index management

  Lets the database add and remove indexes by itself to match the workload, through the CREATE_INDEX and DROP_INDEX automatic tuning options. You'll only find it in SQL database in Fabric and Azure SQL Database.

• az ml online-endpoint update --traffic

  Azure CLI command for dividing live requests across the deployments behind one online endpoint, given as name=percentage pairs such as blue=90 green=10; the values have to add up to either 100 or 0.