Commonly confused concepts
Status: Outline. Each entry should give the distinction, mechanism, and consequence in a few sentences.
Candidates
Section titled “Candidates”- Dynamic typing versus weak typing
- Object handles versus references
- Dependency inversion versus dependency injection
- Container versus service locator
- Authentication versus authorization versus tenant isolation
- Validation versus domain invariants
- Model versus builder versus relation versus collection
- Event versus command versus job versus notification
- Dispatch-after-commit versus transactional outbox
- Concurrency versus parallelism
- Atomicity versus idempotency
- Cache consistency versus database consistency
- OAuth2 versus OpenID Connect
- Logs versus metrics versus traces