Agile & Tech BA
A proprietary issue tracking product developed by Atlassian that allows bug tracking and agile project management
What is Jira
A software intermediary that allows two applications to talk to each other
What is an API
The combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that increases an organization's ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity
What is DevOps?
A set of data that describes and gives information about other data
What is metadata
A service that protects your internet connection and privacy online
What is Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Conditions that a software product must satisfy to be accepted by a user, customer or other stakeholder
What are Acceptance Criteria
The part of a website that users see/interact with
What is front-end (or UI)
Three commons environments in the DevOps life cycle
What are DEV, STAGE(or QA), and PROD
A strategy for maintaining data confidentiality and requires the use of a key (kept secret) in order to return to plaintext
What is encryption
An approach to application development in which a large application is built from modular components or services
What is Microservice Architecture (or Microservices)
A large chunk of work that is segmented into smaller tasks called user stories
What is an epic
A Web app that is presented to the user through a single HTML page to be more responsive and to more closely replicate a desktop application or a native app
What is a Single Page Application (SPA)
An event that takes place in software development when a contributor/developer is ready to begin the process of merging new code changes with the main project repository
What is a pull request (or merge request)
A vast pool of raw data, the purpose for which is not yet defined
Servers that are accessed over the Internet, and the software and databases that run on those servers
What is the cloud
Testing done once a feature has launched to ensure it's working correctly
An API type that is lightweight, can be cached, and is easy to update
What is REST
The combined practices of continuous integration and continuous delivery or continuous deployment
What is CI/CD
A data integration process that combines data from multiple data sources into a single, consistent data store that is loaded into a data warehouse or other target system
What is ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load)
A subset of AI which allows a machine to automatically learn from past data without programming explicitly
What is machine learning
Testing specifically done to ensure that users get the experience they want
What is UAT
A network protocol that provides file access, file transfer, and file management over any reliable data stream
What is a Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
The management of networks, virtual machines, load balancers, and connection topology in a descriptive model
What is Infrastructure as a Service
An open standard file format and data interchange format that uses human-readable text to store and transmit data objects consisting of attribute–value pairs and arrays
What is JSON
A geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers
What is CDN (Content Delivery Network)