The Nightmare Before Christmas
Architectural Components of CCSA
Contemporary Slang
AllRights Potpourri
The Best Show (ever) on TV
100

He is the Pumpkin King.

Who is Jack Skellington?

100

A primary data store of the GTM API, this Apache project is heavily based on another Apache project named Lucene.

What is Apache Solr?

100

One term for talking trash about someone is "throwing" this, like a big elm tree might do.

What is shade?

100

Not a title right, but contains default field group values. Rumored to be renamed a "title right template".

What is a default title right (DTR)?

100

Ding! He was considered the brains behind the Barksdale drug organization.

Who is Stringer Bell?

200

Jack's pet dog. Also, when doing division in math, don't ever divide by this!

Who is Zero?

200

AllRights makes use of this Swiss army knife data store as a cache, which is said to boost performance by reducing expensive I/O operations.

What is Redis?

200

Casper would never do this, but it is a term for when you start ignoring someone out of nowhere.

What is ghosting?

200

Ed is unofficially known as the lord of this application, which is used to track user stories, tasks, sub-tasks (taboo).

What is Jira?

200

This character was known for pushing around a shopping cart of goods for sale on the street. None of the goods contained suds, however.

Who is Bubbles?

300

Something that Oogie Boogie likes to do. If he lived in today's age, he might consider doing it on FanDuel, or in Las Vegas.

What is gambling?

300

This component helps connect multiple systems together when information needs to flow from one to the other. Never use it as a prompt for a drinking game during cross-team architectural meetings.

What is a [Kinesis] stream?

300

Used to convey that something is a lie. Also, worn by all Major League Baseball players.

What is cap?

300

DD: A sociotechnical approach to build a decentralized data architecture by leveraging a domain-oriented, self-serve design, and borrows from the theory of domain-driven design.

Lol. What is a data mesh?

300

A "Bunny" authorized drug use in this area of Baltimore, which also sounds like the Netherlands' capital and most populous city.

What is Hamsterdam?

400

This is the color of Jack's teeth.

What is yellow?

400

This modern form of cloud computing and is often propped up by heroes. Not all heroes wear capes!

What is Serverless?

400

Used to describe when you do something exceptionally well, or wear an exceptionally sharp outfit. No dragons shall be harmed.

What is slay?

400

This person was a recent NBCU Media Tech, but their real claim to fame is trading tennis balls with a little-known ranked tennis player, Raphael Nadal.

Who is Monica Andres?

400

Omar's favorite cereal, which might have you buzzing.

What is Honey Nut Cheerios?

500

Baby doll, what type of thing is Sally?

What is a rag doll?

500

DD: This system is often used to encapsulate a service and its accompanying dependencies in one artifact. Despite comments indicating the contrary, our org VP loves it—he even uses it in his own home!

What is a [Docker] container?

500

When conflict arises, a bold person is sometimes said to want all of this. Even when fire is not present.

What is [the] smoke?

500

This tier was once used interchangeably for satellite television. Now, it is used as a replacement for the term Pay TV, especially after the expanded definition of The Telecommunications Act of 1996.

What is Multiple Video Programming Distributor (MVPD)?

500

Snoop went into a hardware store to secure this .27 caliber piece of equipment.

What is a nail gun?

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