Acronyms
BIOS
What is Basic Input-Output Services?
The study of algorithms and mathematical models that computer systems use to progressively improve their performance on a specific task
What is Machine Learning?
Ada
Who is Ada Lovelace?
Unlike other projects such which have the backing of one main company, this language has a variety of sponsors that include Yahoo!, LinkedIn and Bustle.
What is Ember?
The SEI offers 2-day workshops for new systems but also can be done on the redesign of an existing system's architecture.
What is Quality Attribute Workshop?
ECC
What is Error Correction Code?
Various processes in which material is joined or solidified under computer control to create a three-dimensional object, with the material being added together
What is 3D Printing?
Pichai
Who is Sundararajan Pichai or the CEO of Google?
The first logic-based programming language.
What is Prolog?
Stakeholders, business environment, technology environment and professional experience influence the architect and the architecture of the system which in turn have a cyclic effect on the above factors.
What is the architecture influence cycle?
RAID
What is Redundant Array of Independent Disks?
System that controls lighting, climate, entertainment systems, and appliances for you.
What is home automation?
Creator of C
Who is Dennis Ritchie?
This language is widely known for its use of turtle graphics, in which commands for movement and drawing produced line graphics either on screen or with a small robot called a turtle.
What is Logo?
This establishes a relationship between a problem, the context and the solution to the problem.
What is an Architecture Pattern?
TTA
What is Transport Triggered Architecture?
Shared pools of configurable computer system resources and higher-level services that can be rapidly provisioned with minimal management effort, often over the Internet
What is cloud computing?
RSA
Who are Rivest–Shamir– Adleman?
When Netscape hired Brendan Eich in April 1995, he was told that he had 10 days to create and produce a working prototype of this programming language that would run in Netscape’s browser.
What is JavaScript?
This provides a structure within which some architecture-specific functionality is achieved, in a consistent fashion system-wide.
What is the code template?
YAML
What is YAML Ain't Markup Language ?
A collection of open-source software utilities that facilitate using a network of many computers to solve problems involving massive amounts of data and computation
What is Hadoop?
Credited with inventing Java
Who is James Gosling?
This is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language developed by Apple Inc. for iOS
What is Swift?
This method is designed to evaluate an architecture without being familiar with the architecture or its business goals, the system need not yet be constructed, and there may be a large number of stakeholders.
What is the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM)?