Frequent, commonly used, sometimes mentally lost and forgotten; but unlike Mr.Monoply’s monocle—not missing—quick reference glossary for terminology, meaning and definitions for abbreviations, acronyms, numeronyms, phrases and other terms in the following categories for general areas of interest and fields of Study, Theory and Practice (STP) such as Information Technology (IT), Computer Science (CS), Computer Information Systems (CIS)
- SaaS (model) – Software-as-a-Service
- PaaS (model) – Platform-as-a-Service
- IaaS (model) – Infrastructure-as-a-Service
- FaaS (model) – Function-as-a-Service
- DaaS (model) – Desktop-as-a-Service
- SBU (strategy) – Strategic Business Unit
- TAM (strategy) – Total Addressable Market
- Wiki – Cloud Computing: Service Models
- Wiki – Strategic business unit
- Infrastructure – Inclusive set of underlying tools, components and resources, each integrated with one another into a single architecture supporting environments, business operations and complete computing systems.
- Architecture – A “blueprint” or schema identifying how individual technologies, components and/or capabilities in the infrastructure strategically combine and integrate to objectively measure the “Agility” score for efficiency to infrastructure scaling and stimuli.
- Interpose – Intervening between two points to (also “middleware”).
- Middleware or “Software Glue” – A software that acts as an intermediary between two applications or services to facilitate their communication. (also proxy, interpose, translator)
- DevOps or “Development Operations” – A set of common workflow practices combining software development and IT operations. Commonly seen as: Quality Assurance/Control (QA/QC), System administration (SysAdmin), Agile methodologies, Continuous Integration/Delivery (CI/CD)
- KISS – Keep It Simple, Stupid
- DRY – Don’t Repeat Yourself
- OOP – Object-oriented Programming
- YOGNI – You Aren’t Gonna Need It
- SCP – Single Concern Principle
- HOP – High Observability Principle
- LCP – Life-Cycle Conformance Principle
- IIP – Image Immutability Principle
- PDP – Process Disposability Principle
- S-CP – Self-Containment Principle
- RCP – Runtime Confinement Principle
- SOC – Separation Of Concerns
- ETL – Extract, Transform, Load (used to blend data from multiple sources)
- RFC – Request for Comments
- REPL – Read-Eval-Print-Loop
- SAP – Systems Applications and Products
- ERP (software) – Enterprise Resource Planning
- IAM – Identity and Access Management
- OAuth – Open Standard for Authentication
- OATH – Open Authentication (reference architecture for authentication, unrelated to OAuth)
- Wiki – Initiative for Open Authentication
- Wiki – Help: OAuth
- MPLS – Multi-Protocol Label Switching
- WPS – WiFi Protected-Setup
- IPC – IP Camera or Internet Protocol Camera
- IFTTT – If This Then That
- gTLD – Generic Top Level Domain
- TLD – Top Level Domain
- DIMM – Dual In-line Memory Module
- eMMC – Embedded Multi-Media Card
- TPM – Trusted Platform Module
- VCC – Voltage Common Collector
- Diagram – Visualization (plan, sketch/drawing, outline) based on symbols and elements.
- Illustration – (contrasts diagram) Kind of decoration, explanation or visual interpretation of a concept or idea.
- Illustration Diagram – Graphics that display an image(s) illustrated by labels, notes, table or legend in order to identify, compliment and explain the concepts, methods or objects.
- Infographic – Visual representation with simple narrating of data and information using diagrams, graphs or charts.
- UML Diagram or “Unified Modeling Language Diagram” – A partial graphic representation of a system's architectural blueprints detailed in a diagram. Graphic types are divided into two distinct categories to represent structural information and general behavior.