Dev Glossary

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Auto-scaling

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Ansible

Ansible is an automation engine that applies declarative playbooks to remote systems over SSH, configuring servers, deploying applications, and orchestrating workflows without a central agent.

DevOps & Delivery

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Auto-scaling

Auto-scaling automatically adjusts the number of compute instances or containers in response to demand, keeping performance stable without manual capacity planning.

DevOps & Delivery

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Blue-Green Deployment

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Blue-Green Deployment

A deployment strategy that eliminates downtime by running two identical environments and switching traffic between them.

DevOps

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Canary Deployment

A canary deployment releases a change to a small subset of traffic first, monitors for errors, and then gradually expands if the release behaves as expected.

DevOps & Delivery

CI/CD (Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment)

A software engineering approach that automates testing, integration, and deployment of applications.

DevOps

Configuration Drift

Configuration drift is the gradual divergence between the intended configuration of a system and its actual running state, caused by unmanaged changes, patches, or manual edits.

DevOps & Delivery

Container Orchestration

Container orchestration automates deployment, scaling, networking, and availability for containers across a cluster, removing manual server-by-server management.

DevOps & Delivery

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Containerization

Containerization packages an application with its dependencies, runtime, and configuration into a single image that runs consistently across development, testing, and production environments.

DevOps & Delivery

Content Delivery Networks (CDN)

A system of distributed servers that deliver web content to users based on their geographic location.

Networking

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Data Center

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Distributed Tracing

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Docker

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Data Center

A facility housing networked computers, storage systems, and infrastructure that powers digital services and applications.

Infrastructure

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Distributed Tracing

Distributed tracing tracks a request as it moves through multiple services, collecting timing, metadata, and error context into a connected trace for debugging latency and failures.

DevOps & Delivery

Docker

A containerization platform that packages applications and their dependencies into portable units.

DevOps

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Feature Flag

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Feature Flag

A feature flag is a runtime control that turns functionality on or off without redeploying code, separating deployment from release.

DevOps & Delivery

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Git

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GitHub

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GitOps

Git

A distributed version control system used by developers to track changes in their codebase.

DevOps

GitHub

GitHub is a website that lets developers store, manage, and share code. It's a collaboration platform that uses Git, an open-source version control system. GitHub is used to build and ship software.

DevOps

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GitOps

GitOps is an operational model that uses Git as the single source of truth for declarative infrastructure and application deployments, making every change auditable and reversible.

DevOps & Delivery

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Helm

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Helm

Helm is the package manager for Kubernetes that bundles manifests, defaults, and release metadata into reusable charts, making deployments repeatable across environments.

DevOps & Delivery

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Immutable Infrastructure

Incident Management

Infrastructure as Code

Ingress

Immutable Infrastructure

Immutable infrastructure is a deployment pattern where servers, containers, or disks are never modified after creation. Updates replace the entire artifact instead of patching running instances.

DevOps & Delivery

Incident Management

Incident management is the structured process for detecting, responding to, and recovering from service disruptions while minimizing user impact and preserving operational information.

DevOps & Delivery

Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code manages computing infrastructure through machine-readable definition files instead of manual configuration, making environments versionable and repeatable.

DevOps & Delivery

Ingress

Ingress is a Kubernetes API object and controller that manages external HTTP and HTTPS access to services inside a cluster, providing host-based and path-based routing.

DevOps & Delivery

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Kubernetes

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Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications across clusters of hosts.

DevOps & Delivery

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Linux

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Load Balancing

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Log Aggregation

System Design14 resources

Linux

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DevOps

Load Balancing

Load balancing distributes traffic across multiple servers to improve reliability and performance.

Networking

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Log Aggregation

Log aggregation is the practice of collecting logs from many sources into a central store where they can be searched, filtered, correlated, and retained for debugging and compliance.

DevOps & Delivery

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Monitoring

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Monorepos

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Monitoring

Continuously tracking system health, performance, and behavior to detect issues and understand how applications run in production.

System Design

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Monorepos

A development strategy where multiple projects are stored in a single repository to share code and simplify dependency management.

DevOps

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Networking

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Nginx

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Networking

The practice of connecting computers and systems to share resources and communicate with each other.

System Design

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Nginx

A web server and reverse proxy used to serve websites, balance load, and handle high traffic efficiently.

DevOps

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Observability

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OpenTelemetry

Observability

Observability is the practice of monitoring a system's internal state using logs, metrics, and traces.

DevOps

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OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry is an open source observability framework that provides vendor-neutral APIs, SDKs, and data formats for collecting metrics, traces, and logs from applications and infrastructure.

DevOps & Delivery

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Postmortem

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Postmortem

A postmortem is a written record of an incident that captures what happened, why it happened, and what will change to prevent it from happening again.

DevOps & Delivery

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Rate Limiting

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Reverse Proxy

Rolling Deployment

Rate Limiting

Rate limiting controls the number of requests a client can make to an API within a specific timeframe to prevent abuse.

Networking

Reverse Proxy

A reverse proxy sits in front of backend services and forwards client requests to them, providing a single public entry point for routing, caching, termination, and security.

DevOps & Delivery

Rolling Deployment

A rolling deployment replaces old instances with new ones gradually, keeping the service available while the update progresses through the fleet.

DevOps & Delivery

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Secrets Management

Infrastructure38 resources

Server

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Serverless

Service Level Agreement

Service Level Objective

Site Reliability Engineering

Secrets Management

Secrets management is the practice of storing, distributing, and rotating sensitive credentials such as API keys, certificates, database passwords, and tokens in a controlled and auditable way.

DevOps & Delivery

Server

A computer or software that provides services, resources, or data to other computers (clients) over a network.

Infrastructure

Serverless

A cloud computing model where you write code without managing servers. The cloud provider handles infrastructure automatically.

Cloud Computing

Service Level Agreement

A Service Level Agreement is a contractual commitment between a provider and a customer that defines the expected service level, usually measured as availability, response time, or support response.

DevOps & Delivery

Service Level Objective

A Service Level Objective is a reliability target for a service, expressed as a percentage, latency bound, or throughput floor that users can depend on.

DevOps & Delivery

Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering is a discipline that applies software engineering practices to operations problems, making production systems scalable, measurable, and automatable.

DevOps & Delivery

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Terraform