Cloud native modern application and microservices related buzzwords

Disclaimer: This blog content has been taken from my latest book:

“Cloud Native Microservices with Spring and Kubernetes”

On this Covid weekend. I have tried to consolidate a few popular cloud native and microservices related acronyms and buzzwords. Hope it will be helpful for a quick reference for novice and pro professionals :

• DDD: Domain Driven Design is used for microservices design based on closed context of independent business modules
• DoS: A Denial-of-Service (DoS) is a cyber-attack  to shut down a machine or network, making it inaccessible to its intended users. DoS attacks accomplish this by flooding the target with traffic, or sending it information that triggers a crash.
• DDoS: It’s an extension DoS. he incoming traffic flooding the victim originates from many different sources. This effectively makes it impossible to stop the attack simply by blocking a single source.
• API: Application Program Interface. It’s a computing interface which defines interactions between multiple software applications and can be interacted using REST.
• REST:  Representational state transfer (REST) is a software architectural style that defines a set of constraints to be used for creating Web services.
• OWASP: The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is an online community that produces freely-available articles, methodologies, documentation, tools, and technologies in the field of web application security.
• DC: Data Center. It’s a physical facility that organizations use to host their critical applications and data.
• AZ: Availability Zones are isolated virtual locations within data center regions from which public cloud services originate and operate for HA, DR, backup.
• HA: High Availability
• DR: Disaster Recovery
• A&A: Authorization & Authentication
• BM : Bare Metal on plain OS.
• OS: Operating system
• SQL: Structured Query Language for RDBMS databases like MySQL, Oracle
• No-SQL: No- Structured Query Language for Non-RDBMS databases like document based database MongoDB, or column based database HBase, GreenPlum etc.
• BYO: Bring Your Own. Example: Bring your own software.
• DIY: Do It Yourself. It’s used for mainly self-service management/operations.
• TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP). The Internet protocol suite is the conceptual model and set of communications protocols used in the Internet and similar computer networks. It works on handshaking dialogues.
• UDP: User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is one of the core members of the Internet protocol suit. It has no handshaking dialogues.
• DevOps: A set of practices that combines software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops). It aims to shorten the systems development life cycle and provide continuous delivery and continuous integration with high software quality. DevOps is complementary with Agile software development.
• DevSecOps: is the philosophy of integrating security practices within the DevOps process. DevSecOps involves creating a ‘Security as Code’ culture with ongoing, flexible collaboration between release engineers and security teams.
• CI/CD: Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration.
• Agile software development: Iterative sprint based rapid development model.
• H/W: Hardware
• H/W: Software
• CQRS: Command query responsibility segregation is microservice design pattern to separate read and write command responsibilities of data.
• SAGA: Microservices architectural pattern to implement a transaction that spans across multiple microservices
• HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-layer protocol for transmitting web-content
• HTTPS: HTTP with SSL security
• SSL & TSL: Secure Sockets Layer and its successor, TLS (Transport Layer Security), are protocols for establishing authenticated and encrypted links between networked computers or cloud appications/services.
• Greenfield: New scratch application
• Brownfield: Legacy or old application
• MFA: Multi-factor authentication which involved more than one device to authenticate like login credentials with mobile based OTP confirmation.
• OTP: One Time password
• RBAC: Role-based access control (RBAC) is a method of restricting network access based on the roles of individual users within an enterprise.
• AWS: Amazon Web services. A leading public cloud provider.
• GCP: Google Cloud Platform. A leading public cloud provider