Gen AI
The Canva product that can create visual artworks from text descriptions.
What is Magic Media?
This tool tracks how well teams are doing with reliability/platform standards.
What is scorecards?
This emerging cloud trend involves processing data closer to where it is generated, rather than in centralized data centers.
What is edge computing?
This practice involves using code to manage and provision infrastructure.
What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?
In August 2024, Canva acquired the AI image generation platform and startup
What is Leonardo AI?
This term describes AI-generated videos where someone’s face is swapped with another’s.
What is Deepfake?
A common challenge for PMOs is managing this, which occurs when project requirements keep expanding.
What is scope creep?
An AWS managed cloud database service that simplifies setting up, operating, and scaling relational databases.
What is RDS?
This practice involves simulating failures in a controlled environment to improve system resilience.
What is chaos engineering?
In 2022, Canva acquired a London-based data visualization startup.
What is Flourish?
A type of large language model (LLM) specifically trained to solve complex, multi-step problems that require logical thinking and explicit reasoning
What is a reasoning model?
PMs often use this methodology, which emphasizes iterative development and collaboration.
What is Agile?
A NoSQL document database designed for web and mobile applications with real-time synchronization acquired by Google in October 2017.
What is Firebase/Firestore?
This type of monitoring focuses on the health and performance of individual components rather than the overall system.
What is white-box monitoring?
In May 2019, Canva acquired two free stock photography sites based in Germany, which enabled Canva users to access their photos for designs.
What is Pixabay and Pexels?
A company is adding their specific data to a generative AI model to customize it. What is this action called?
What is fine-tuning?
This is the project of identifying, analyzing, and responding to project risks.
What is HURT?
Vision - Our Vision is to have a culture that empowers Canvanauts to seamlessly maximise value for every dollar spent in the Cloud
What is Cloud FinOps?
This principle states that systems should degrade gracefully rather than fail completely.
What is fault tolerance?
In March 2024, Canva acquired UK-based company, the developers of the Affinity suite of graphic design software.
What is Serif?
Open standard introduced by Anthropic in November 2024 to standardize the way artificial intelligence systems like large language models integrate and share data with external tools, systems, and data sources
What is MCP?
A farming analogy coined to refer to reducing KTLO work in Infra 2026
What is tend to your patch?
This term refers to the practice of using serverless computing to run applications without managing infrastructure.
What is Function as a Service (FaaS)?
This tool is used for container orchestration and managing distributed systems.
What is Kubernetes?
In 2018, Canva acquired presentations startup for an undisclosed amount, as part of its expansion into the presentations space.
What is Zeetings?