Five Core Functions
Blue Cross Fun Facts
Cloud
Code/Data
100

Tool used by delivery team to streamline code deployment from development to production.

What is a CI/CD pipeline?

100

Identify what these are.

  • Be Kind
  • Be Curious
  • Be Courageous
  • Be the Example
  • Be Community Focused

What are the 5 Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA company values?

100

What does SaaS stand for?

Software as a Service

100

This company provides hosting for software development and distributed version control familiar to computer programmers, and is known for its iconic Octocat (part cat, part octopus) logo.

Github

200

Methodology to break projects into iterative cycles for frequent delivery.

What is the Agile methodology?

200

About how much, in total dollars, did BCBSMA give back to the community in 2023?

a. 11M

b. 20M

c. 13M

d. 15M

about $15M

200

What does SQS stand for?

Simple Queue Service

200

Often associated with the software development strategy of Agile, this software engineering practice unifies software operations with software development.

DevOps

300

Component of zero trust that ensures users only access the resources they need for their role and nothing more.

What is Least privilege access?

300

The first Blue Cross agile pods were named what (before they were named by the team members)?

Design and Implementation

300

Testing area that allows new and untested software to be run securely.

What is Sandbox environment?

300

Linus Torvalds created this software for tracking changes on files in order to improve development of the Linux kernel in 2005.

Git

400

Meeting held to approve and review all change requests before they are implemented.

What is the CAB (Change Advisory Board) meeting?

400

This animal symbolizes rebirth, renewal, and immortality ancient in Greek and Egyptian mythology.

the Phoenix

400

The first AWS service launched in this year.

2004

400

This database software, an in-memory data structure store with a red stacked logo, was originally written by Salvatore Sanfilippo in 2009.

Redis

500

Allow a large application to be separated into smaller independent parts, with each part having its own realm of responsibility.

What is Microservice architecture?

500

When was Blue Cross MA founded?

1937

500

Prior to 2014, when it was open-sourced by Google, Kubernetes was known by this four-letter name of an alien species in the Star Trek franchise.

What is Borg?

500

Common, HDFS, YARN, MapReduce, and Ozone are key modules in this popular open-source big data framework managed by the Apache Software Foundation.

Hadoop