Holiday Movies
In this movie, Ralphie wants nothing more than a Red Rider BB Gun
What is A Christmas Story?
To keep elves collaborating securely from anywhere, Santa relies on this model where software is delivered over the internet instead of installed locally.
What is Software as a Service (SaaS)?
The Community Energy Cooperative, which eventually became Elevate, started this year.
What is 2000?
Dasher reminds us that Agile teams should always “dash” toward delivering value in these short, time-boxed iterations.
What are sprints?
This highest layer of the OSI model is where users and software applications interact.
What is the Application Layer?
Hans Gruber fell from the top of this building in Die Hard.
What is Nakatomi Plaza?
The workshop scales toy production instantly using this cloud concept that adjusts computing power automatically based on demand.
What is auto-scaling?
Elevate's website shows we have offices in this many states.
What is 6 (states)?
Prancer is the 'master' of keeping team prancing together through this daily activity.
What is Daily Scrum?
Translation and formatting of data between a networking service and an application is presented in this layer, including character encoding, data compression and encryption/decryption.
What is the Presentation Layer?
In this miraculous film, a man named Kris Kringle who is working as a department store Santa Claus claims to be the REAL Santa. What street did this happen on?
What is 34th Street?
Santa deploys new features for the Naughty/Nice app to the cloud without downtime using this release strategy.
What is continuous deployment (CD)?
Elevate's Q4 Board Report states that this is our estimated revenue for 2025 (+/- $1million).
What is $75,193,745)
You may know all of the reindeer's names, but you probably recall hearing one of these about the most famous reindeer of all, Rudolph.
What is a Story?
This layer of the OSI model manages communication sessions between two or more computers.
What is the Session layer?
Who is Michael Caine?
This type of cloud computing model lets Santa scale toy-production servers up or down without buying new workshops.
What is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)?
Elevate currently has this many full-time staff (+/- 5).
What is 261?
Donner reminds you that all teams need to agree on this for each backlog item.
What is the Definition of Done?
This middle layer provides the functional and procedural means of transporting variable-length data sequences from a source host to a destination host on a network while maintaining the quality-of-service functions.
What is the Transport Layer?
In Home Alone, the McAllister family flies away to this city for the Christmas and accidentally leaves 8-year-old son Kevin behind.
Where is Paris?
Santa stores billions of wish lists in this cloud storage model, which users access through the internet instead of on their own devices.
What is object storage?
Our logo (the upward arrow) is comprised of this many yellow dots. There are as many dots in the logo as there were employees at the time we rebranded to Elevate Energy.
What is 75?
All of Santa's reindeer are under extreme pressure because of this previously agreed upon period of time to deliver presents to all the good girls and boys.
What is a Timebox?
This layer provides the functional and procedural means of transferring packets from one node to another connected in "different networks".
What is the Network Layer?