Architect This
This variant of the service-oriented architecture (SOA) structural style arranges an application as a collection of loosely coupled services
What is Microservices?
A widely used object-oriented language whose name is another term used to refer to a cup of coffee
What is Java?
Fashion group that owns Topshop, Topman, Burton
What is Arcadia Group?
Based in San Francisco this cloud software provider acquired Slack for $28B in December
What is Salesforce?
A software licensing and delivery model in which the provider is responsible for the provision, management, and maintenance of the application software
What is SaaS?
A decentralized, distributed, and oftentimes public, digital ledger
What is Blockchain?
Markup language used for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web
What is HTML?
Menswear formal clothing retailer that closed it's entire network of 66 shops in 2020 and is now online only
What is TM Lewin?
Company based in Walldorf, Germany. The largest non-American software company by revenue
What is SAP?
When a system can provision and de-provision resources in an autonomic manner, in order to meet the current demand on resources as closely as possible
What is Elasticity?
Central repositories of integrated data from one or more disparate sources, accessible across the entire enterprise to enable actionable insights and cross-functional leverage
What is a Data Warehouse?
Multimedia software platform commonly used for web games and animations was officially discontinued on December 31, 2020
What is Adobe Flash?
UK department store with 178 locations that entered administration in 2019 and 2020 and currently going through liquidation
What is Debenhams?
Founded in 1911 this multinational company announced in October it will be spinning off its Managed Infrastructure Services business to a new public company
What is IBM?
The most commonly used containerization technology and platform
What is Docker?
Software engineering approach in which software functionalities are delivered frequently through automated deployments
What is Continuous Deployment?
Open-source relational database management system named after the founder's daughter. Released in 1995 and acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008
What is MySQL?
In March the tech retail giant Dixons decided to close down this chain, affecting 531 shops
What is Carphone Warehouse?
This company moved its headquarters to Austin, Texas in December. Took over TikTok's US operations in September
What is Oracle?
This lets you run application code without creating, configuring, or maintaining a server
What is Serverless Computing?
Suite of cloud services enabling customers to develop, execute and govern integration flows between disparate applications
What is IPaaS?
User interface library for JavaScript developed and maintained by Facebook, commonly used for web front end development
What is ReactJS?
UK fashion brand founded in 1884 that was acquired by M&S this week
What is Jaeger?
A cloud-based data-warehousing company whose IPO in September was the largest software IPO ever
What is Snowflake?
Isolated locations within data center regions from which public cloud services operate. Each of these are made up of one or more data centers
What is an Availability Zone?