Tag: Cloud
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Glossary Terms
Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
APM tracks application latency, errors, transactions, and resource use so teams can diagnose performance issues in production.
Auto Scaling
Auto scaling automatically increases or decreases resource count based on CPU, memory, queue, or traffic thresholds.
AWS (Amazon Web Services)
AWS is Amazon's broad cloud platform offering compute, storage, database, networking, and artificial intelligence services.
Blob Storage
Blob storage keeps images, videos, backups, and other unstructured files in scalable cloud buckets without requiring a file server.
Cache
A cache stores frequently used data temporarily so applications can respond quickly without repeating expensive origin requests.
CDN (Content Delivery Network)
A CDN caches static content on edge servers near users, reducing latency, bandwidth pressure, and load on the origin server.
Chaos Engineering
Chaos engineering tests resilience by injecting controlled failures and observing whether systems keep working under real-world stress.
Cloud Cost Optimization
Cloud cost optimization reduces waste from idle resources, oversized capacity, and poor pricing choices without harming reliability.
Cloudflare
Cloudflare is a global internet platform providing DNS, CDN, security, performance, and edge compute services from one network.
Cloudflare Pages
Cloudflare Pages hosts static sites and frontend apps through Git-based deployments on Cloudflare's global edge network.
Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare Workers runs JavaScript and Web API based serverless code on Cloudflare's edge network without managing servers.
Cold Start
A cold start is the extra latency when a serverless function or scaled instance initializes before handling its first request.
Container Registry
A container registry stores tagged Docker or OCI images and supplies a trusted source for CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes deployments.
Content Delivery
Content delivery serves static files, media, and pages from infrastructure close to users to improve speed, availability, and resilience.
Coolify
Coolify is an open-source self-hosted PaaS that simplifies deploying apps, databases, and services on your own servers.
Disaster Recovery
Disaster recovery restores systems after outages or data loss within target RTO and RPO limits through tested plans.
Distributed Tracing
Distributed tracing follows a request across services with a trace identifier, showing where latency, errors, or retries occur.
DNS (Domain Name System)
DNS maps readable domain names to IP addresses so browsers, email servers, and APIs can reach the right destination without hard-coded numbers.
Docker
Docker packages application code and dependencies into container images so the same service can run consistently in development, test, and production.
Docker Compose
Docker Compose defines multiple containers in one YAML file so local development and test environments can run as a coordinated stack.
Domain Name
A domain name is the memorable internet address people use to reach a website, application, API, or email service.
Edge Computing
Edge computing processes data or application logic closer to users instead of sending every request to one central server.
Edge Rendering
Edge rendering generates pages at locations close to the user instead of a central server, reducing latency for dynamic content.
FinOps
FinOps is a cloud financial management discipline that makes spend visible and aligns engineering decisions with business goals.
GitOps
GitOps is a deployment approach where desired infrastructure and application state is stored in Git and synced automatically.
Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud is Google's managed cloud platform for workloads ranging from virtual machines to data warehouses and AI services.
Helm
Helm packages Kubernetes manifests into versioned charts, making application configuration and deployment repeatable.
Hetzner Cloud
Hetzner is a German provider offering VPS, dedicated servers, storage, and cloud networking from European data centers.
IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)
IaaS lets teams rent virtual servers, storage, and networking from the cloud while managing the operating system layer themselves.
Immutable Infrastructure
Immutable infrastructure replaces servers with new images or instances for every change instead of patching running machines in place.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Infrastructure as Code defines servers, networks, and cloud resources in versioned code files instead of manual console configuration.
Infrastructure Monitoring
Infrastructure monitoring collects metrics from servers, networks, databases, and cloud resources to catch failure signals early.
Internal Developer Platform (IDP)
An internal developer platform standardizes how teams create, deploy, and operate services through self-service workflows.
Kubernetes
Kubernetes orchestrates containerized services across server clusters, handling deployment, scaling, updates, and recovery.
Kubernetes Pod
A Pod is the smallest deployment unit in Kubernetes, containing one or more containers with shared network and storage resources.
Lambda Function (Serverless Function)
A Lambda function is a serverless code unit that runs when triggered, with automatic scaling and pay-per-use billing.
Latency
Latency is the time it takes for a network request to travel from source to destination and back; low latency is key to performance.
Load Balancer
A load balancer distributes incoming network traffic across multiple servers to ensure high availability and performance.
Microsoft Azure
Azure is Microsoft's cloud platform for virtual machines, databases, identity, analytics, and hybrid cloud services.
Multi-Region Deployment
Multi-region architecture runs applications and data across multiple geographic regions to reduce latency, outage impact, and disaster risk.
Netlify
Netlify deploys static sites and Jamstack applications from Git, combining build automation, a global CDN, and serverless functions.
Nginx
Nginx is an event-driven web server that serves static content, proxies requests, and distributes traffic across backend servers.
Object Storage
Object storage stores files in a flat structure with metadata and unique IDs — the preferred storage type for media files in web applications.
PaaS (Platform as a Service)
PaaS is a cloud service model offering ready-made development environments for building and deploying applications without managing infrastructure.
Platform Engineering
Platform engineering builds shared infrastructure products that help software teams ship services securely and repeatably.
S3 Object Storage
S3 is an API-based cloud object storage model that stores files as objects in buckets for scalable, durable storage.
SaaS (Software as a Service)
SaaS delivers software by subscription through a browser or app, with hosting, updates, and operations handled by the provider.
SaaS Architecture
SaaS architecture designs multi-tenancy, subscription management, scalability, security, and observability as one product infrastructure.
Serverless
Serverless is a cloud architecture model where server provisioning and capacity planning move to the provider while code runs in response to events.
Serverless Function
A serverless function is a short-lived cloud code unit triggered by events such as HTTP requests, queue messages, cron jobs, or file uploads.
Service Mesh
A service mesh manages traffic between microservices through a proxy layer, adding mTLS, observability, routing, and policy controls.
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
SRE applies software engineering to reliability work, including automation, incident response, capacity planning, and service targets.
SLA (Service Level Agreement)
An SLA defines uptime, response time, resolution targets, measurement methods, and remedies between a provider and a customer.
SLI and SLO
SLIs and SLOs define measurable service signals and the reliability targets teams commit to for those signals over time.
SSL/TLS (Secure Sockets Layer / Transport Layer Security)
SSL/TLS is the protocol family that provides identity checks, key agreement, and encrypted data transfer between clients and servers.
Terraform
Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code tool that manages cloud resources through HCL configuration, provider plugins, and state files.
Throughput
Throughput measures the number of requests, transactions, or data units a system can process per second, minute, or hour.
Uptime
Uptime expresses how long a system remains accessible outside planned or unplanned outages, usually as a percentage or time window.
Vercel
Vercel is a cloud hosting and deployment platform that ships frontend applications from Git workflows to an edge network.
VPS (Virtual Private Server)
A VPS is a hosting model that provides isolated resources and administrative control inside a virtualized physical server.
WebAssembly (Wasm)
WebAssembly runs compiled code from languages like C, Rust, or Go inside browsers and edge runtimes with portable performance.