Year: 2026

Amazon RDS is a managed service that simplifies deploying, operating, and scaling relational databases in the cloud.

Secrets management is the practice of securely storing, accessing, distributing, and rotating sensitive credentials like API keys and certificates.

Serverless computing is a cloud execution model where the provider manages all infrastructure and you pay only for the compute time your code uses.

Flux CD is a GitOps tool for Kubernetes that continuously reconciles cluster state with configurations stored in Git repositories.

Microservices architecture is a design approach where an application is built as a collection of small, independent services that communicate through APIs.

OPA is an open-source policy engine that provides unified, context-aware policy enforcement across Kubernetes, APIs, microservices, and cloud infrastructure.

Zero trust architecture is a security model that requires strict identity verification for every person and device accessing resources, regardless of network location.

Backstage is an open-source developer portal built by Spotify that helps platform teams create a unified interface for infrastructure and developer tools.

An IDP is a self-service layer that abstracts infrastructure complexity, enabling developers to deploy and manage applications independently.

Toil is the kind of work tied to running a production service that is manual, repetitive, automatable, and grows linearly with service size.