Glossary

The Amazon Systems Manager Parameter Store provides secure, hierarchical storage for configuration data management and secrets management.

Pingdom is a service that tracks the availability (e.g. uptime & downtime) as well as the performance of websites.

A Platform-as-a-Service is a type of cloud platform which offers black-box services that enable developers to build applications on top of the compute infrastructure without needing to deal with the day-to-day maintenance of the infrastructure. This might include developer tools that are offered as a service to build services, or data access and database services, or billing services.

Polyrepo describes an approach of using multiple, independent source code repositories that are independently versioned and controlled.

Amazon Relational Database Service is a service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient, resizable capacity for an industry-standard relational database and manages common database administration tasks such as backups, restores, and automatic failover.

A sub-discipline of software engineering concerned with the compilation, assembly, and delivery of source code into finished products or other software components that are subsequently shipped to production

Amazon S3 is an object storage service with a simple web service interface and API capable of storing and retrieving any amount of data from anywhere on the web. It is designed to deliver 99.999999999% durability, and scale past trillions of objects worldwide.

An S3 bucket is a logical unit of storage in S3 that stores collections of objects.

S3FS refers both to an application, script and the concept of mounting a remote S3 bucket as a local filesystem.

A sandbox environment is a place where developers can play around with new technologies without risk of impacting staging or production environments.