software-engineering-abbreviations-acronyms

• Ordered by alphabet
  • A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 2 3
• Group by prefix or suffix
  • C(X)O
  • EO(X)
  • SL(X)
  • (X)aaS
  • (X)DD
  • (X)MS
  • (X)PS
  • (X)SP
  • (X)UT
• Group by topic
  • Database
  • Data engineering
  • Data interchange format
  • Incident metrics
  • Risk management
  • Service level terminologies
  • Network
  • OSI model
  • Compliance
  • Communication
  • Agile
  • Cloud service provider
  • Diagram
  • Hardware
  • Microservice design patterns
  • Tech stacks
  • Concurrency control
  • Factor-driven software development methodologies
  • Software development process
  • Software design methodologies
  • Software development principles
  • Programming paradigms
  • Software architecture paradigms
  • Software architectural patterns
  • Software life cycles
  • Java
  • File system
  • Page replacement algorithms
  • Organizations
  • Data-size units
  • Data-rate units
  • Timezone
  • Business
  • Roles
  • Workspace
  • English

Ordered by alphabet

A

• AADD
  • Active-Admin-Driven Development
• AC
  • Acceptance Criteria
• ACID
  • Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability
• ACK / Ack
  • Acknowledgement
• ACL
  • Anti-Corruption Layer
  • Access Control List
• AD
  • Active Directory
  • Architectural Decision
  • Architectural Design
• ADL
  • Architecture Decision Log
• ADP
  • Acyclic Dependencies Principle
• ADR
  • Architectural Decision Records
  • Action–Domain–Responder
• AES
  • Advanced Encryption Standard
• AFAICT
  • As Far As I Can Tell
• AFAIK
  • As Far As I Know
• AFK
  • Away From Keyboard
• AI
  • Artificial Intelligence
• AIOps
  • Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations
• AKA
  • As Known As
• AKM
  • Architectural Knowledge Management
• ALM
  • Application Lifecycle Management
• AML
  • Anti-Money Laundering
• AMQP
  • Advanced Message Queuing Protocol
• AOF
  • Append Only File
• AOP
  • Aspect-Oriented Programming
• aPaaS
  • application Platform as a Service (Same with PaaS)
• API
  • Application Programming Interface
• APM
  • Application Performance Monitoring
  • Agile Project Management
  • Application Portfolio Management
• ASAP
  • As Soon As Possible
• ASCII
  • American Standard Code for Information Interchange
• ASD
  • Adaptive Software Development
• ASP
  • Application Service Provider
• ASR
  • Architecturally-Significant Requirement
• ATDD
  • Acceptance Test-Driven Development
• AUI
  • Attentive User Interface
• AUP
  • Agile Unified Process
• AWS
  • Amazon Web Services

B

• B
  • Byte
• b
  • bit
• BAN
  • Body Area Network
• BASE
  • Basically Available, Soft state, Eventually consistent
• BC
  • Business Continuity
• BCE
  • Boundary-Control-Entity (Same with ECB)
• BCP
  • Business Continuity Planning
• BDD
  • Behavior-Driven Development
• BDUF
  • Big Design Up Front (principle)
• BFF
  • Backend for Frontend
• BgDD
  • Bug-Driven Development
• BI
  • Business Intelligence
• BLOB / blob
  • Binary Large OBject
• bps
  • bits per second
• Bps
  • Bytes per second
• BRB
  • Be Right Back
• BSON
  • Binary JSON
• BTW
  • By The Way
• B2B
  • Business to Business
• B2C
  • Business to Consumer
• B2E
  • Business to Employee

C

• CA
  • Certificate / Certification Authority
• CaaS
  • Container as a Service
• CAN
  • Campus Area Network
• CAP theorem
  • Consistency, Availability and Partition tolerance
• CASE
  • Computer Aided Software Engineering
• CBD
  • Component-Based Development (Same with CBSE)
• CBSE
  • Component-Based Software Engineering
• CC
  • Carbon Copy
• CCP
  • Common-Closure Principle
• CD
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Continuous Deployment
• CDA
  • Content Delivery Application
• CDC
  • Change Data Capture
• CDD
  • Configuration-Driven Development
• CDN
  • Content Delivery Network
• CDT
  • Central Daylight Time
• CEO
  • Chief Executive Officer
• CEP
  • Complex Event Processing
• CFD
  • Control-Flow Diagram
  • Cumulative Flow Diagram
• CFO
  • Chief Financial Officer
• CI
  • Continuous Integration
• CI/CD / CICD
  • Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery / Deployment
• CL
  • Change List / ChangeList
• CLOB / clob
  • Character Large OBject
• CLI
  • Command-Line Interface
• CLT
  • Command-Line Tool
• CM
  • Content Management
• CMO
  • Chief Marketing Officer
• CMP
  • Certificate Management Protocol
• CMS
  • Content Management System
• CO
  • Commitment Ordering
• COO
  • Chief Operating Officer / Chief Operation Officer
• CPS
  • Connections Per Second
• CPU
  • Central Processing Unit
• CQRS
  • Command and Query Responsibility Segregation
• CQS
  • Command-Query Separation (principle)
• CR
  • Code Review
• CRM
  • Customer Relationship Management
• CRP
  • Common-Reuse Principle
• CRUD
  • Create, Read, Update and Delete
• CSA
  • Cloud Security Alliance
• CSO
  • Chief Security Officer
• CSP
  • Cloud Service Provider
• CSS
  • Cascading Style Sheets
• CST
  • Central Standard Time
• CSV
  • Comma-Separated Values
• CTDD
  • Continuous Test-Driven Development
• CTO
  • Chief Technology Officer
• CUI
  • Conversational User Interface
• C2B
  • Consumer to Business
• C2C
  • Consumer to Consumer

D

• DaaS
  • Data as a Service
  • Desktop as a Service
• DAD
  • Disciplined Agile Delivery
• DAL
  • Data Access Layer
• DAO
  • Data Access Object
• DB
  • Database
• DBA
  • Database Administrator
• DBaaS
  • Database as a Service
• DBMS
  • Database Management System
• DC
  • Data Center
• DCI
  • Data Center Interconnect
• DCL
  • Data Control Language
• DCO
  • Data Center Outsourcing
• DDD
  • Domain-Driven Design
• DDL
  • Data Definition Language
• DDoS
  • Distributed Denial-of-Service (attack)
• DES
  • Data Encryption Standard
• DFD
  • Data Flow Diagram
• DHCP
  • Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
• DHT
  • Distributed Hash Table
• DLM
  • Distributed Lock Manager
• DLQ
  • Dead Letter Queue
• DM
  • Direct Message
  • Dimensional Modeling
• DMCA
  • Digital Millennium Copyright Act
• DML
  • Data Manipulation Language
• DND
  • Do Not Disturb
• DNS
  • Domain Name System
• DOB
  • Date Of Birth
• DOCTYPE
  • DOCument TYPE declaration
• DOM
  • Document Object Model
• DORA
  • DevOps Research and Assessment
• DQL
  • Data Query Language
• DR
  • Disaster Recovery
• DRM
  • Digital Rights Management
• DRP
  • Disaster Recovery Plan
• DRY
  • Don't Repeat Yourself (principle)
• DSDL
  • Document Schema Definition Language
• DSDM
  • Dynamic Systems Development Method
• DSL
  • Domain-Specific Language
• DST
  • Daylight Saving Time
• DSV
  • Delimiter-Separated Values
• DTD
  • Document Type Definition
• DTSTTCPW
  • Do The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work (principle)
• DUT
  • Device Under Test
• DVCS
  • Distributed Version Control System
• DW
  • Data Warehouse
• DWH
  • Data WareHouse (Same with DW)
• DWIM
  • Do What I Mean (principle)
• D3
  • Design-Driven Development

E

• EAI
  • Enterprise Application Integration
• EB
  • Exabyte
• EBC
  • Entity-Boundary-Control (Same with ECB)
• EC
  • Eventual Consistency
• ECB
  • Entity-Control-Boundary
• ECM
  • Enterprise Content Management
• ECO
  • Extended Commitment Ordering
• ECRS
  • Expense and Cost Recovery System
• EDA
  • Event-Driven Architecture
• EDD
  • Example-Driven Development
• EDH
  • Enterprise Data Hub
• EDI
  • Electronic Data Interchange
• EDW
  • Enterprise Data Warehouse (Same with DW)
• ELK
  • Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (tech stack)
• ELT
  • Extract, Load, and Transform
• EM
  • Engineering Manager
• EMV
  • Europay, Mastercard and Visa
• EOD
  • End of Day
• EOF
  • End of File
• EOL
  • End of Line
• EOM
  • End of Month
  • End of Message
• EOT
  • End of Transmission
• EOW
  • End of Week
• ER
  • Entity Relationship
• ERD
  • Entity-Relationship Diagram
  • Engineering Requirements Document
• ERP
  • Enterprise Resource Planning
• ES
  • Event Sourcing
• ESB
  • Enterprise Service Bus
• ESP
  • Event Stream Processing
• EST
  • Eastern Time Zone
• ETA
  • Estimated Time of Arrival
• ETL
  • Extract, Transform, and Load
• EUT
  • Equipment Under Test
• E2E
  • End-To-End
• e.g.
  • for example

F

• FaaS
  • Function as a Service
• FACTA
  • Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act
• FAQ
  • Frequently Asked Questions
• FAT
  • File Allocation Table
• FDD
  • Feature-Driven Development
• FIFO
  • First In, First Out
• FK
  • Foreign Key
• FP
  • Functional Programming
• FSM
  • Finite-State Machine
• FTE
  • Full-Time Employee
• FTP
  • File Transfer Protocol
• FWIW
  • For What It's Worth
• FYI
  • For Your Information

G

• GAN
  • Global Area Network
• GB
  • Gigabyte
• GBps
  • Gigabyte per second
• GC
  • Garbage Collection
• GCP
  • Google Cloud Platform
• GFS
  • Google File System
• GIS
  • Geographic Information System
• GMS
  • Globalization Management System (Same with TMS)
• GMT
  • Greenwich Mean Time
• GNU
  • An extensive collection of free software
• GRASP
  • General Responsibility Assignment Software Patterns
• GSM
  • Goals, Signals and Measures (framework)
• GUI
  • Graphical User Interface

H

• HAN
  • Home Area Network
• HDD
  • Hard Disk Drive
• HDFS
  • Hadoop Distributed File System
• Hex
  • Hexadecimal
• HIPAA
  • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
• HMAC
  • Hash-based Message Authentication Code
• HMVC
  • Hierarchical Model–View–Controller
• HOOD
  • Hierarchic Object-Oriented Design
• HPC
  • High-Performance Computing
• HR
  • Human Resources
• HRM
  • Human Resources Management
• HSM
  • Hardware Security Module
• HTML
  • HyperText Markup Language
• HTTP
  • Hypertext Transfer Protocol
• HTTPS
  • Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

I

• IaaS
  • Infrastructure as a Service
• IaC
  • Infrastructure as code
• IAM
  • Identity and Access Management
• IC
  • Individual Contributor
• ICN
  • Information-Centric Networking
• IDE
  • Integrated Development Environment
• IDL
  • Interface Definition Language
• IdM
  • Identity Management
• IEEE
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
• IETF
  • Internet Engineering Task Force
• IIRC
  • If I Recall/Remember Correctly
• IIUC
  • If I Understand Correctly
• IM
  • Instant Messaging
• IMAP
  • Internet Message Access Protocol
• IMO
  • In My Opinion
• IMHO
  • In My Honest/Humble Opinion
• IoT
  • Internet of Things
• IOW
  • In Other Words
• IP
  • Internet Protocol
  • Intellectual Property
• IPC
  • Inter-Process Communication / InterProcess Communication
• IPv4
  • Internet Protocol version 4
• IPv6
  • Internet Protocol version 6
• ISO
  • International Organization for Standardization
• ISP
  • Internet Service Provider
• ISV
  • Independent Software Vendor
• IT
  • Information Technology
• ITSM
  • Information Technology Service Management
• i.e.
  • in other words

J

• JAD
  • Joint Application Design
• JDBC
  • Java Database Connectivity
• JDK
  • Java Development Kit
• JMS
  • Java Message Service
• JRE
  • Java Runtime Environment
• JS
  • JavaScript
• JSON
  • JavaScript Object Notation
• JVM
  • Java Virtual Machine

K

• KB
  • Kilobyte
• KBps
  • Kilobyte per second
• KISS
  • Keep It Simple, Stupid! (principle)
• KMS
  • Key Management Service
• KPI
  • Key Performance Indicator

L

• LAMP
  • Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python (tech stack)
• LAN
  • Local Area Network
• LB
  • Load Balancer
• LCME
  • Linux, Yaws, CouchDB, Erlang (tech stack)
• LDAP
  • Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
• LDF
  • Longest Distance First
• LEDES
  • Legal Electronic Data Exchange Standard
• LeSS
  • Large-Scale Scrum
• LGTM
  • Looks Good to Me
• LIFO
  • Last In, First Out
• LMK
  • Let Me Know
• LMS
  • Learning Management System
• LRU
  • Least Recently Used
• LYME
  • Linux, Yaws, Mnesia, Erlang (tech stack)

M

• MAC
  • Message Authentication Code
• MAN
  • Metropolitan Area Network
• MB
  • Megabyte
• MBaaS
  • Mobile Backend as a Service
• MBps
  • Megabyte per second
• MDM
  • Master Data Management
• MEAN
  • MongoDB, Express.js, AngularJS and Node.js (tech stack)
• MERN
  • MongoDB, Express.js, React and Node.js (tech stack)
• MEVN
  • MongoDB, Express.js, VueJS, Node.js (tech stack)
• MFA
  • Multi-Factor Authentication
• MFT
  • Managed File Transfer
• MIME
  • Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension
• MIS
  • Management Information System
• ML
  • Machine Learning
• MOM
  • Message-Oriented Middleware
• MPA
  • Multi-Party Authorization
• MQ
  • Message Queue
• MR
  • Merge Request
• MS
  • Microsoft
• MTBF
  • Mean Time Before Failure
• MTDC
  • Multi-Tenant Data Center
• MTTA
  • Mean Time To Acknowledge
• MTTF
  • Mean Time To Failure
• MTTR
  • Mean Time To Recovery
  • Mean Time To Repair
  • Mean Time To Respond
  • Mean Time To Resolve
• MVA
  • Model–View–Adapter
• MVC
  • Model–View–Controller
• MVCC
  • Multi-Version Concurrency Control
• MVCO
  • Multi-Version Commitment Ordering
• MVD
  • Minimum Viable Documentation
• MVNO
  • Mobile Virtual Network Operator
• MVP
  • Model–View–Presenter
  • Minimal Vaable Product
• MVVM
  • Model–View–View Model
• MWN
  • Municipal Wireless Network

N

• NaaS
  • Network as a Service
• NACK
  • Negative-Acknowledgement
• NAK
  • Negative-Acknowledgement (Same with NACK)
• NFU
  • Not Frequently Used
• NIS
  • Network Information Service
• NIT / nit
  • nit-pick / nitpicking / Nitpick
• NLP
  • Natural Language Processing
• NLU
  • Natural Language Understanding
• NTFS
  • New Technology File System

O

• OAuth
  • Open Authorization
• OCC
  • Optimistic Concurrency Control (Optimistic locking)
• OCO
  • Optimistic Commitment Ordering
• ODBC
  • Open Database Connectivity
• ODS
  • Operational Data Store
• OIDC
  • OpenID Connect
• OKR
  • Objectives and Key Results
• OLAP
  • Online Analytical Processing
• OLEP
  • Online Event Processing
• OLTP
  • Online Transaction Processing
• OMT
  • Object-Modeling Technique
• OOA
  • Object-Oriented Analysis
• OOAD
  • Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
• OOD
  • Object-Oriented Design
• OOO
  • Out Of Office
• OOP
  • Object-Oriented Programming
• OOUI
  • Object-Oriented User Interface
• OpenUP
  • Open Unified Process
• ORB
  • Object Request Broker
• ORM
  • Object–Relational Mapping
• OS
  • Operating System
• OSI
  • Open Systems Interconnection (model)
• OSS
  • Open-Source Software
  • Object Storage Service (Alibaba Cloud)
• OTAC
  • One-Time Authorization Code (Same with OTP)
• OTP
  • One-Time Password

P

• PaaS
  • Platform as a Service
• PAC
  • Presentation–Abstraction–Control
• PAN
  • Personal Area Network
• PAT
  • Personal Access Token
• PB
  • Petabyte
• PBI
  • Product Backlog Item
• PC
  • Personal Computer
• PCC
  • Pessimistic Concurrency Control (Pessimistic locking)
• PCI
  • Payment Card Industry
• PCI-DSS
  • Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
• PEP
  • Python Enhancement Proposals
• PIC
  • Personal In Charge
• PIN
  • Personal Identification Number
• PK
  • Primary Key
• PKI
  • Public Key Infrastructure
• PM
  • Project Manager
  • Product Manager
• POC / PoC
  • Proof of Concept
  • Point of Contact
• POJO
  • Plain Old Java Object
• POLA
  • Principle Of Least Astonishment
• POR
  • Plan Of Record
• POV / PoV
  • Proof of Value
• PR
  • Pull Request (Same with CL)
• PRD
  • Product Requirements Document
• Protobuf
  • Protocol Buffers
• PSP
  • Payment Service Provider
• PST
  • Pacific Time Zone
• PTAL
  • Please Take A Look
• PTE
  • Part-Time Employee
• PTO
  • Paid Time Off
• PuTTY
  • A free and open-source terminal emulator, serial console and network file transfer application
• P2P
  • Peer-to-Peer

Q

• QA
  • Quality Assurance
• Q&A
  • Question-and-Answer
• QBR
  • Quarterly Business Review
• QC
  • Quality Control
• QE
  • Quality Engineer
• QPS
  • Queries Per Second
• QTR
  • Quarterly Tech Review

R

• RA
  • Registration Authority
• RAB
  • Rapid Application Building (Same with RAD)
• RAD
  • Rapid Application Development
• RAID
  • Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks / Redundant Array of Independent Disks
• RAM
  • Random Access Memory
• RAN
  • Religious Area Network
• RCA
  • Root Cause Analysis
• RDBMS
  • Relational Database Management System
• RDUF
  • Rough Design Up Front (principle)
• RE
  • Release Engineering
• regex / regexp
  • Regular Expression
• REP
  • Reuse-release Equivalence Principle
• RERO
  • Release Early, Release Often (principle)
• REST
  • Representational State Transfer
• RFC
  • Remote Function Call
  • Request For Comments
• ROM
  • Read Only Memory
• RPC
  • Remote Procedure Call
• RPO
  • Recovery Point Objective
• RPS
  • Requests Per Second
• RSA
  • Rivest–Shamir–Adleman
• RT
  • Response Time
• RTO
  • Recovery Time Objective
• RUP
  • Rational Unified Process
• R&D
  • Research and Development

S

• SaaS
  • Software as a Service
• SAFe
  • Scaled Agile Framework
• SAML
  • Security Assertion Markup Language
• SAN
  • Storage Area Network
• SAP
  • Stable-Abstractions Principle
• SASE
  • Secure Access Service Edge
• SBA
  • Space-Based Architecture
• SBE
  • Specification By Example 
• SCA
  • Service Component Architecture
• SCM
  • Software Configuration Management
  • Supply Chain Management
• SCO
  • Strict Commitment Ordering
• SDD
  • Story-Driven Development
• SDK
  • Software Development Kits
• SDLC
  • Systems Development Life Cycle
• SDN
  • Software-Defined Networking
• SD-WAN
  • Software-Defined WAN
• SDO
  • Service Data Object
• SDP
  • Stable-Dependencies Principle
• SECaaS
  • Security as a Service
• SEO
  • Search Engine Optimization
• SFTP
  • SSH File Transfer Protocol
  • Secure File Transfer Protocol
• SGML
  • Standard Generalized Markup Language
• SLA
  • Service Level Agreement
• SLI
  • Service Level Indicator
• SLO
  • Service Level Objective
• SMART
  • Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound (goal setting framework)
• SMS
  • Short Message Service
• SMTP
  • Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
• SN
  • Shared-Nothing (architecture)
  • Serial Number
• SOA
  • Service-Oriented Architecture
• SOAP
  • Simple Object Access Protocol
• SOLID
  • Single-responsibility principle, Open–closed principle, Liskov substitution principle, Interface segregation principle, Dependency inversion principle
• SOP
  • Standard Operating Procedure
• SPOF
  • Single Point Of Failure
• SPOT
  • Single Point Of Truth (Same with SSOT)
• SQA
  • Software Quality Assurance
• SQL
  • Structured Query Language
• SRE
  • Site Reliability Engineering
• SRLC
  • Software Release Life Cycle
• SSADM
  • Structured Systems Analysis and Design Method
• SSD
  • Solid-State Drive
  • System Sequence Diagram
• SSH
  • Secure Shell (Protocol)
• SSL
  • Secure Sockets Layer
• SSO
  • Single Sign-On
• SSOT
  • Single Source Of Truth
• SS2PL
  • Strong Strict 2-Phase Locking
• SUT
  • System Under Test
• SVOT
  • Single Version Of Truth
• SWE
  • SoftWare Engineer
• S2PL
  • Strict 2-Phase Locking

T

• TB
  • Terabyte
• TBA
  • To Be Announced
• TBD
  • To Be Done/Decided/Determined
• TBH
  • To Be Honest
• TBR
  • To Be Reviewed
• TBps
  • Terabyte per second
• TC
  • Technical Candidate
• TCC
  • Try-Confirm/Cancel
• TCO
  • Total Cost of Ownership
• TCP
  • Transmission Control Protocol
• TDD
  • Test-Driven Development
• TDS
  • Transaction Data Store
• TE
  • Test Engineer
• TL
  • Tech Lead
• TLM
  • Tech Lead Manager
• TLS
  • Transport Layer Security
• TLDR / TL;DR
  • Too Long, Didn't Read
• TMS
  • Translation Management System
• TMTOWTDI
  • There's More Than One Way To Do It (principle)
• TPM
  • Technical Program Manager
  • Technological Protection Measure
• TO
  • Timestamp Ordering
• TOC
  • Table Of Contents
• TOT
  • Top Of Tree (The newest code in the code base)
• TOTP
  • Time-based One-Time Password
• TPA
  • Third-Party Authenticator
• TPS
  • Transactions Per Second
• TSV
  • Tab-Separated Values
• TTL
  • Time To Live
• TTP
  • Trusted Third Party
• TUI
  • Tangible User Interface

U

• UAP
  • Uniform Access Principle
• UAT
  • User Acceptance Testing
• UCaaS
  • Unified Communication as a Service
• UCD
  • User-Centered Design
• UDD
  • User-Driven Development (Same with UCD)
• UDDI
  • Universal Description, Discovery and Integration
• UDP
  • User Datagram Protocol
• UI
  • User Interface
• UML
  • Unified Modeling Language
• URI
  • Uniform Resource Identifier
• URL
  • Uniform Resource Locator
• USD
  • Unified Software Development
• UTC
  • Coordinated Universal Time
• UTF-8
  • Unicode Transformation Format - 8-bit
• UUT
  • Unit Under Test
• UX
  • User Experience

V

• VA
  • Validation Authority
• VDD
  • Value-Driven Design
• VDM
  • Virtual Database Manager
• VLAN
  • Virtual LAN (Local Area Network)
• VPN
  • Virtual Private Network
• VS
  • Visual Studio
• V&V
  • Verification and Validation

W

• WAL
  • Write-Ahead Logging (PostgreSQL)
• WAN
  • Wide Area Network
• WBAN
  • Wireless BAN (Same with BAN)
• WCM
  • Web Content Management
• WFH
  • Work From Home
• WIP
  • Work In Progress
• WLAN
  • Wireless LAN (Local Area Network)
• WS
  • Web Service
• WSDL
  • Web Service Description Language
• W3C
  • World Wide Web Consortium

X

• XML
  • Extensible Markup Language
• XP
  • Extreme Programming
• XSD
  • XML Schema Definition

Y

• YAGNI
  • You Aren't Gonna Need It (principle)
• YAML
  • YAML Ain’t Markup Language (Recursive acronym)
• YARN
  • Yet Another Resource Negotiator
• YB
  • Yottabyte

Z

• ZB
  • Zettabyte
• ZTN
  • Zero Trust Network

2

• 2FA
  • Two-Factor Authentication (Same with MFA)
• 2PC
  • Two-Phase Commit
• 2PL
  • Two-Phase Locking

3

• 3PC
  • Three-Phase Commit

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Group by prefix or suffix

C(X)O

• CEO: Chief Executive Officer
• CFO: Chief Financial Officer
• COO: Chief Operating Officer / Chief Operation Officer
• CTO: Chief Technology Officer
• CMO: Chief Marketing Officer
• CSO: Chief Security Officer

EO(X)

• EOD: End of Day
• EOF: End of File
• EOL: End of Line
• EOM: End of Message
• EOM: End of Month
• EOT: End of Transmission
• EOW: End of Week

SL(X)

• SLA: Service Level Agreement
• SLI: Service Level Indicator
• SLO: Service Level Objective

(X)aaS

• SaaS: Software as a Service
• PaaS: Platform as a Service
  • aPaaS: application Platform as a Service
  • iPaaS: integration Platform as a Service
  • dPaaS: data Platform as a Service
• IaaS: Infrastructure as a Service
• FaaS: Function as a Service
• DaaS: Destop as a Service
• DBaaS: Database as a Service
• DCaaS: Data Center as a Service
• CaaS: Container as a Service
• NaaS: Network as a Service
• SECaaS: Security as a Service
• UCaaS: Unified Communication as a Service
• MBaaS: Mobile Backend as a Service
• MSaaS: Managed Software as a Service

(X)DD

• TDD: Test-Driven Development
• BDD: Behavior-Driven Development
• DDD: Domain-Driven Design

(X)MS

• CMS: Content Management System
• DBMS: Database Management System
• GMS: Globalization Management System (Same with TMS)
• KMS: Key Management Service
• TMS: Translation Management System
• LMS: Learning Management System

(X)PS

• TPS: Transactions Per Second
• QPS: Queries Per Second
• RPS: Requests Per Second
• CPS: Connections Per Second
• bps: bits per second
• Bps: Bytes per second
• KBps: Kilobyte per second
• MBps: Megabyte per second
• GBps: Gigabyte per second
• TBps: Terabyte per second

(X)SP

• ASP: Application Service Provider
• CSP: Cloud Service Provider
• ISP: Internet Service Provider
• PSP: Payment Service Provider

(X)UT

• DUT: Device Under Test
• EUT: Equipment Under Test
• SUT: System Under Test
• UUT: Unit Under Test

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Group by topic

Database

• DB: Database
• DBA: Database Administrator
• DBMS: Database Management System
  • RDBMS: Relational Database Management System
• ACID: Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability
• BASE: Basically Available, Soft state, Eventually consistent
• PK: Primary Key
• FK: Foreign Key
• BLOB: Binary Large OBject
• CLOB: Character Large OBject
• CAP theorem: Consistency, Availability and Partition tolerance
• CRUD: Create, Read, Update and Delete
• SQL: Structured Query Language
  • DDL: Data Definition Language
  • DQL: Data Query Language
  • DML: Data Manipulation Language
  • DCL: Data Control Language
• WAL: Write-Ahead Logging (PostgreSQL)
• JDBC: Java Database Connectivity
• ODBC: Open Database Connectivity
• VDM: Virtual Database Manager

Data engineering

• DW: Data Warehouse
• DWH: Data WareHouse (Same with DW)
• EWD: Enterprise Data Warehouse (Same with DW)
• ETL: Extract, Transform, and Load
• ELT: Extract, Load, and Transform
• ELK: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (tech stack)

Data interchange format

• XML: Extensible Markup Language
• JSON: JavaScript Object Notation
• BSON: Binary JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)
• CSV: Comma-Separated Values
• TSV: Tab-Separated Values
• DSV: Delimiter-Separated Values
• Protobuf: Protocol buffers

Incident metrics

• MTBF: Mean Time Before Failure
• MTTA: Mean Time To Acknowledge
• MTTF: Mean Time To Failure
• MTTR: Mean Time To Recovery/Repair/Respond/Resolve

Risk management

• DR: Disaster Recovery
• DRP: Disaster Recovery Plan
• BC: Business Continuity
• BCP: Business Continuity Planning
• RTO: Recovery Time Objective
• RPO: Recovery Point Objective
• MTPoD: Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption
• MTD: Maximum Tolerable Downtime
• MTO: Maximum Tolerable Outage
• MAO: Maximum Allowable Outage
• RCO: Recovery Consistency Objective
• RCC: Recovery Consistency Characteristics
• ROG: Recovery Object Granularity
• BIA: Business Impact Analysis
• TRA: Threat and Risk Analysis

Service level terminologies

• SLA: Service Level Agreement
• SLI: Service Level Indicator
• SLO: Service Level Objective

Network

• GAN: Global Area Network
• WAN: Wide Area Network
• RAN: Religious Area Network
• MAN: Metropolitan Area Network
  • MWN: Municipal Wireless Network
• CAN: Campus Area Network
• HAN: Home Area Network
• LAN: Local Area Network
  • SAN: Storage Area Network
  • WLAN: Wireless LAN (Local Area Network)
  • VLAN: Virtual LAN (Local Area Network)
• PAN: Personal Area Network
• BAN: Body Area Network
  • WBAN: Wireless BAN (Same with BAN)
• VPN: Virtual Private Network
• ZTN: Zero Trust Network

OSI model

• Layer 7: Application layer
  • AMQP: Advanced Message Queuing Protocol
  • DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
  • DNS: Domain Name System
  • FTP: File Transfer Protocol
  • HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
  • HTTPS: Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
  • IMAP: Internet Message Access Protocol
  • LDAP: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
  • SFTP: SSH File Transfer Protocol / Secure File Transfer Protocol
  • SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
  • SSH: Secure Shell (protocol)
• Layer 4: Transport layer
  • TCP: Transmission Control Protocol
  • UDP: User Datagram Protocol
• Layer 3: Network layer
  • IP: Internet Protocol
  • IPv4: IP (Internet Protocol) version 4
  • IPv6: IP (Internet Protocol) version 6

Compliance

• AML: Anti-Money Laundering
• FACTA: Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act
• HIPPA: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
• DMCA: Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Communication

• Synchronous
  • Web service
    • REST: Representational State Transfer
    • SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol
  • RPC: Remote Procedure Call
• Asynchronous
  • MQ: Message Queue

Agile

• AC: Acceptance Criteria
• APM: Agile Project Management
• PBI: Product Backlog Item

Cloud service provider

• AWS: Amazon Web Services
• GCP: Google Cloud Platform

Diagram

• CFD: Control-Flow Diagram
• CFD: Cumulative Flow Diagram
• DFD: Data Flow Diagram
• ERD: Entity-relationship Diagram
• SSD: System Sequence Diagram

Hardware

• CPU: Central Processing Unit
• HDD: Hard Disk Drive
• SSD: Solid-State Drive
• RAM: Random Access Memory
• ROM: Read Only Memory

Microservice design patterns

• CQRS: Command and Query Responsibility Segregation
• BFF: Backend for Frontend
• ES: Event Sourcing
• ACL: Anti-Corruption Layer
• TCC: Try-Confirm/Cancel

Tech stacks

• LAMP: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python (tech stack)
• ELK: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (tech stack)
• LYME: Linux, Yaws, Mnesia, Erlang (tech stack)
• LCME: Linux, Yaws, CouchDB, Erlang (tech stack)
• MEAN: MongoDB, Express.js, AngularJS and Node.js (tech stack)
• MERN: MongoDB, Express.js, React and Node.js (tech stack)
• MEVN: MongoDB, Express.js, VueJS, Node.js (tech stack)

Concurrency control

• Categories
  • OCC: Optimistic Concurrency Control (Optimistic locking)
  • PCC: Pessimistic Concurrency Control (Pessimistic locking)
• Methods
  • 2PL: 2-Phase Locking
  • S2PL: Strict 2-Phase Locking
  • SS2PL: Strong Strict 2-Phase Locking
  • TO: Timestamp Ordering
  • CO: Commitment Ordering
  • SCO: Strict Commitment Ordering
  • OCO: Optimistic Commitment Ordering
  • ECO: Extended Commitment Ordering
  • MVCC: Multi-Version Concurrency Control
  • MVCO: Multi-Version Commitment Ordering

Factor-driven software development methodologies

• TDD: Test-Driven Development
  • BDD: Behavior-Driven Development
  • ATDD: Acceptance Test-Driven Development
  • CTDD: Continuous Test-Driven Development
• AADD: Active-Admin-Driven Development
• BgDD: Bug-Driven Development
• CBD: Component-Based Development (Same with CBSE)
• CDD: Configuration-Driven Development
• D3: Design-Driven Development
• FDD: Feature-Driven Development
• UDD: User-Driven Development (Same with UCD)

Software development process

• RAD: Rapid Application Development
• ASD: Adaptive Software Development
• USD: Unified Software Development
  • RUP: Rational Unified Process
  • OpenUP: Open Unified Process
  • AUP: Agile Unified Process
• RAB: Rapid Application Building (Same with RAD)
• DSDM: Dynamic Systems Development Method

Software design methodologies

• DDD: Domain-Driven Design
• UCD: User-Centered Design
• VDD: Value-Driven Design
• SSADM: Structured Systems Analysis and Design Method
• HOOD: Hierarchic Object-Oriented Design

Software development principles

• RERO: Release Early, Release Often (principle)
• GRASP: General Responsibility Assignment Software Patterns
• SOLID: Single-responsibility principle, Open–closed principle, Liskov substitution principle, Interface segregation principle, Dependency inversion principle
• YAGNI: You Aren't Gonna Need It (principle)
• UAP: Uniform Access Principle
• TMTOWTDI / TIMTOWTDI: There's More Than One Way To Do It (principle in Perl)
• DTSTTCPW: Do The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work (principle)
• SSOT: Single Source Of Truth
• SVOT: Single Version Of Truth
• POLA: Principle Of Least Astonishment
• KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid! (principle)
• DRY: Don't Repeat Yourself (principle)
• DWIM: Do What I Mean (principle)
• CQS: Command-Query Separation (principle)
• BDUF: Big Design Up Front (principle)
• RDUF: Rough Design Up Front (principle)
• Package principles
  • Principles of package cohesion
    • REP: Reuse-release Equivalence Principle
    • CRP: Common-Reuse Principle
    • CCP: Common-Closure Principle
  • Principles of package coupling
    • ADP: Acyclic Dependencies Principle
    • SDP: Stable-Dependencies Principle
    • SAP: Stable-Abstractions Principle

Programming paradigms

• OOP: Object-Oriented Programming
• FP: Functional Programming
• XP: Extreme Programming
• AOP: Aspect-Oriented Programming

Software architecture paradigms

• EDA: Event-Driven Architecture
• SBA: Space-Based Architecture
• SN: Shared-Nothing (architecture)
• SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture

Software architectural patterns

• ADR: Action–Domain–Responder
  • MVC: Model–View–Controller
  • PAC: Presentation–Abstraction–Control
  • MVP: Model–View–Presenter
  • MVA: Model–View–Adapter
  • MVVM: Model–View–View Model
• HMVC: Hierarchical Model–View–Controller
• ECB: Entity-Control-Boundary
• EBC: Entity-Boundary-Control (Same with ECB)
• BCE: Boundary-Control-Entity (Same with ECB)

Software life cycles

• SDLC: Systems Development Life Cycle
• SRLC: Systems Release Life Cycle

Interfaces

• API: Application Programming Interface
• UI: User Interface
  • CLI: Command-Line Interface
  • GUI: Graphical User Interface
  • AUI: Attentive User Interface
  • OOUI: Object-Oriented User Interface
  • CUI: Conversational User Interface
  • TUI: Tangible User Interface

Java

• JDBC: Java Database Connectivity
• JDK: Java Development Kit
• JMS: Java Message Service
• JRE: Java Runtime Environment
• JVM: Java Virtual Machine
• POJO: Plain Old Java Object

File system

• GFS: Google File System
• HDFS: Hadoop Distributed File System
• NTFS: New Technology File System
• FAT: File Allocation Table

Page replacement algorithms

• LRU: Least Recently Used
• NFU: Not Frequently Used
• LDF: Longest Distance First
• FIFO: First In, First Out

Organizations

• ISO: International Organization for Standardization
• IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
• IETF: Internet Engineering Task Force
• W3C: World Wide Web Consortium
• LEDES: Legal Electronic Data Exchange Standard

Data-size units

• b: bit
• B: Byte
• KB: Kilobyte
• MB: Megabyte
• GB: Gigabyte
• TB: Terabyte
• PB: Petabyte
• EB: Exabyte
• ZB: Zettabyte
• YB: Yottabyte

Data-rate units

• bps: bits per second
• Bps: Bytes per second
• KBps: Kilobyte per second
• MBps: Megabyte per second
• GBps: Gigabyte per second
• TBps: Terabyte per second

Timezone

• UTC: Coordinated Universal Time
• GMT: Greenwich Mean Time
• PST: Pacific Time Zone
• EST: Eastern Time Zone
• CST: Central Standard Time
• CDT: Central Daylight Time
• DST: Daylight Saving Time

Business

• BC: Business Continuity
• BCP: Business Continuity Planning
• B2B: Business to Business
• B2C: Business to Consumer
• B2E: Business to Employee
• C2C: Consumer to Consumer
• C2B: Consumer to Business
• IP: Intellectual Property
• KPI: Key Performance Indicator
• R&D: Research and Development
• SOP: Standard Operating Procedure
• UX: User Experience
• QBR: Quarterly Business Review
• OKR: Objectives and Key Results

Roles

• CEO: Chief Executive Officer
• CFO: Chief Financial Officer
• CMO: Chief Marketing Officer
• COO: Chief Operating Officer / Chief Operation Officer
• CSO: Chief Security Officer
• CTO: Chief Technology Officer
• IC: Individual Contributor
• PM: Project Manager
• PM: Product Manager
• TL: Tech Lead
• TLM: Tech Lead Manager
• TPM: Technical Program Manager
• TC: Technical Candidate
• EM: Engineering Manager
• SWE: SoftWare Engineer
• TE: Test Engineer

Workspace

• EOD
• EOW
• DM
• FTE
• PTE
• HR
• OOO
• PTO
• TLDR / TL;DR
• WFH: Work From Home

English

• AFAICT: As Far As I Can Tell
• AFAIK: As Far As I Know
• AFK: Away From Keyboard
• AKA: As Known As
• ASAP: As Soon As Possible
• BRB: Be Right Back
• BTW: By The Way
• DOB: Date Of Birth
• ETA: Estimated Time of Arrival
• FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
• FWIW: For What It's Worth
• FYI: For Your Information
• IIRC: If I Recall/Remember Correctly
• IIUC: If I Understand Correctly
• IMO: In My Opinion
• IMHO: In My Honest/Humble Opinion
• IOW: In Other Words
• LGTM: Looks Good to Me
• LMK: Let Me Know
• NIT: nit-pick / nitpicking / Nitpick
• PTAL: Please Take A Look
• TBA: To Be Announced
• TBD: To Be Done/Decided/Determined
• TBH: To Be Honest
• TBR: To Be Reviewed
• WIP: Work In Progress
• e.g.: for example
• i.e.: in other words

References

• https://adr.github.io/
• https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/inspection-guides/glossary-computer-system-software-development-terminology-895
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/omg-why-so-many-jargons-tdd-bdd-atd-ddd-ruchi-mishra/