DevOps Glossary

Duration it takes for a browser to display the contents of a web page after receiving data from the server.

Ability of a system to withstand and recover from failures and disruptions, crucial for maintaining service availability.

Duration between a user's action and the system's reaction, a critical metric for measuring application performance and user experience.

Practices and measures taken to protect REST APIs from various security threats.

Organizational restructuring strategy aimed at aligning team structures with the desired software architecture.

Configuration management and application deployment tool written in Perl, designed for simplicity and flexibility.

Monitoring system designed for distributed systems, focusing on collecting events from servers and applications for processing and analysis.

Systematic process of evaluating potential risks and their impact on an organization, crucial for effective security management.

Forecasting and evaluation of financial risks together with the identification of procedures to avoid or minimize their impact.

Approach to restricting system access to authorized users based on their role within an organization.

Process of restoring a database, program, or system to a previous state, often used when issues arise after an update or change.

Deployment strategy where new versions of an application are gradually rolled out to a subset of users.

Deployment strategy where an application's containers are updated in a rolling fashion, one after the other.

Method of problem solving used for identifying the root causes of faults or problems.

Debugging technique where a programmer explains the code line-by-line to an inanimate object.

Open-source IT automation and compliance tool that helps manage large-scale, complex IT infrastructures across various environments.

Practice of executing code directly from a version control repository, often used in continuous integration workflows.

Compilation of routine procedures and operations that a system administrator or operator carries out.

Collection of procedures and operations that describe how to run a computer system or network, crucial for IT operations.

Open-source operations management and automation platform, designed to streamline routine and ad-hoc tasks across various systems.

Component in CI/CD systems responsible for executing jobs and reporting results back to the CI/CD server, often customizable for different environments.

Scalable object storage service from AWS, designed for durability, availability, and performance across various use cases.

Security Assertion Markup Language; XML-based open-standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data.

Static Application Security Testing; method of testing applications without executing them.

Software Development Kit; set of software development tools for creating applications for a specific platform.