📖What it means

Computed from a live source at the moment it is asked for, rather than stored and maintained by hand. Requirements are derived; so is a service's spend. Derived values cannot go stale, and cannot be edited into a lie.

📖Easily confused with

[{"term": "Authored", "distinction": "A derived value is computed; an authored one was written by a person and has to be maintained."}, {"term": "Cached", "distinction": "Derived means recomputed from source; cached means a previous computation is being reused."}]

📖Also called

- computed
- live
- not stored

📖Filed under

Category: general.

Service: Governance.