Category: Glossary

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

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

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

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

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit that collects time-series metrics using a pull model, designed for cloud-native environments.

AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that runs your code in response to events without requiring you to provision or manage servers.

OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework that provides standardized APIs and tools for collecting metrics, logs, and traces.

AWS IAM controls who can access which AWS resources and what actions they can perform.

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

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