Glossary of Abbreviations
On this page, we will have a list of the abbreviations that are used in this course, and what they stand for, that will help you when going through the course content. These abbreviations will be quickly accessible from anywhere within the course, just click on the Glossary tab.
ACI: Application Centric Infrastructure
AIO: All-in-One
ALGOL: Algorithmic Language
AMI: Amazon Machine Image
API: Application Program Interface
ASIC: Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
ATDD: Acceptance Test-Driven Development
BDD: Behavior-Driven Development
BM: Bare Metal
BoF: Birds of a Feather
CAB: Change Advisory Boards
CAMS: Culture-Automation-Measurement-Sharing
CAPEX: Capital Expenditures
CEO: Chief Executive Officer
CI/CD: Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery
CM: Configuration Management
CMO: Chief Marketing Officer
COBOL: Common Business-Oriented Language
CPU: Central Processing Unit
CRUD: Create-Replace-Update-Delete
CTO: Chief Technology Officer
CVEs: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
DBA: Database Administrator
DISA: Defense Information Systems Agency
DLOQ: Dimensions of Learning Organization Questionnaire
DNS: Domain Name System
DOES: DevOps Enterprise Summit
DR: Disaster Recovery
DSL: Domain-Specific Language
DTR: Docker Trusted Registry
EBS: Amazon Elastic Block Store
ELK: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana
EMT: Emergency Medical Technician
ERP: Enterprise Resource Planning
ETTO: Efficiency-Thoroughness-Trade-Off Principle
FAI: Fully Automatic Installation
FEMA: Federal Emergency Management Agency (in the US)
FIT: Fault Injection Technology
FPGA: Field-Programmable Gate Array
GM: General Motors
GUI: Graphical User Interface
HBR: Harvard Business Review
IaaS: Infrastructure as a Service
ICE: Inclusivity, Complexity, Empathy
IMOC: Incident manager on Call
ITIL: Information Technology Infrastructure Library
JIT: Just-in-Time Model
KPI: Key Performance Indicator
LISA: Large Installation System Administration Conference
LRR: Launch Readiness Review
LXC: Linux Containers
MAAS: Machine as a Service (from Canonical)
MAD: Median Absolute Deviation
MBO: Management by Objective
MRD: Market Requirement Document
MTBF: Mean Time between Failures
MTTD: Mean Time to Detect
MTTR: Mean Time to Recover/Resolve
MVP: Minimum Viable Product
NI: National Instruments
NOC: Network Operations Center
NUMMI: The New United Motor Manufacturing Incorporated
NYSE: New York Stock Exchange
OKR: Objectives and Key Results
OPEX: Operating Expenses
OSI: Open Systems Interconnection model
PaaS: Platform as a Service
PDCA: Plan-Do-Check-Act
PGA: Programmable Gate Array
PIE: Programmable Infrastructure Environment
QA: Quality Assurance
R&D: Research and Development
ROI: Return on Investment
SaaS: Software as a Service
SBI: The Situation, Behavior, Impact Feedback Tool
SDLC: Software Development Lifecycle
SDN: Software Defined Networking
SEC: Securities and Exchange Commission
SLA: Service Level Agreement
SLI: Service Level Indicator
SLO: Service Level Objective (deprecated)
SLT: Service Level Target (formerly known as SLO)
SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture
SRE: Site Reliability Engineering (Google)
TDD: Test-Driven Development
TOC: Theory of Constraints
TPS: Toyota Production System
UX: User Experience Design
VM: Virtual Machine
VMDK: Virtual Machine Disk
WIP: Work in Progress