Jargon

Term	Meaning
Serverless	No infrastructure is set up in advance, but is spun up on demand, where the provider dynamically manages the allocation of resources
Idempotent	The property of certain operations in mathematics and computer science that they can be applied multiple times without changing the result beyond the initial application
Orchestration	Coordinating multiple systems at once, for example: migrating databases, scaling docker services, etc...
Provisioning	Getting or providing resources and services, such as network bandwidth, VM's, libraries, etc...
"Lift and shift"	Lift and shift is a migration strategy that usually uses migration tools to replicate existing applications without redesigning the application
Holocracy	Authority and decision-making are distributed throughout a holarchy of self-organizing teams rather than being vested in a management hierarchy
Microservice	Architectural style that structures an application as a collection of loosely coupled services
Monolith	A single-tiered software application in which the user interface and data access code are combined into a single program from a single platform
DevOps	Development Operations
DDB(M)S	Distributed Database (Management) System
RDB(M)S	Relational Database (Management) System
YAGNI	You aren't gonna need it
OLAP	Online Analytical Processing
DTAP	Development Testing Acceptation Production
CRUD	Create Read Update Delete
SaaS	Software as a Service
IaaS	Infrastructure as a Service
PaaS	Platform as a Service
SPOF	Single Points of Failure
SOA	Service Oriented Architecture
ETL	Extract Transform Load
ESB	Enterprise Service Bus
IOT	Internet of Things
VVV	Volume, Variety, Velocity
DWH	Data Warehouse
ACID	Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability (SQL)
BASE	Basically Available Soft state Eventual consistency (NoSQL)
CAP	Consistency, Availability, Partition Tolerance
ERP	Enterprise Resource Planning
SAP	Systems, Applications and Products (An ERP system, german company)
ORM	Object Relational Mapping
DAG	Directed Acyclic Graph
SLA	Service-level Agreement
HA	High Availability
MR	Map-Reduce
ML	Machine Learning
AI	Artificial Intelligence