Category: Glossary

FinOps brings financial accountability to cloud spending by combining engineering, finance, and business teams.

Spot instances are unused cloud compute capacity available at steep discounts, reclaimable with short notice.

A NAT gateway enables instances in private subnets to access the internet while preventing inbound connections.

Cloud cost optimization is the ongoing process of reducing cloud spending while maintaining or improving performance and reliability.

Developer experience encompasses all interactions developers have with tools, processes, and systems, impacting productivity and satisfaction.

Platform as a product applies product management principles to internal developer platforms, treating developers as customers.

A golden path is a recommended, pre-built workflow or template that makes it easy for developers to follow best practices by default.

Alertmanager handles alert routing, deduplication, grouping, and silencing for Prometheus monitoring.

Tekton is a Kubernetes-native CI/CD framework that defines pipelines as custom resources, running tasks as pods.

Fluentd is an open-source data collector that unifies log collection, processing, and routing from multiple sources to various destinations.