Day: May 21, 2026

An SLO is an internal target for a service’s reliability, expressed as a percentage of successful operations over a defined time period.

Cloud-native is an approach to building and running applications that fully exploits cloud computing advantages like scalability and resilience.

Loki is a log aggregation system built by Grafana Labs that indexes metadata instead of log content, making it efficient and cost-effective.

Amazon S3 is a highly scalable object storage service that stores and retrieves any amount of data from anywhere on the internet.

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

Jaeger is an open-source distributed tracing platform that helps teams monitor and troubleshoot latency issues in microservices architectures.

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.