HKU - microservices

agile

able to move quickly and easily

Digital Transformation

Process of reimagining a company's business model and operations to become a digital enterprise

scale

the size or level of something especially in comparison to something else

utilize

to use

profitability

Company's ability to generate an adequate return on invested capital.

IT infrastructure

provides platform for supporting all information systems in the business

workloads

the amount of work to be done by someone or something

platforms

types of delivery systems

Applications software

software that helps a user perform a desired task

Microservices

A software architecture that is composed of smaller modules that interact through APIs and can be updated without affecting the entire system.

3 tier architecture

-user tier: computers, phones, devices
-server tier: web servers and applications
-database tier: DBMS processes requests to retrieve and store data

DevOps

The practice of blending the tasks performed by the development and IT operations groups to enable faster and more reliable software releases.

Hybrid application

A mobile application that requires communication with the web server but also utilizes plug-ins to access device functionality

Application Delivery Controllers

An Application delivery controller (ADC) is a device housed in a data center between firewalls and application servers, existing basically for the purpose of application acceleration, reducing load on websites and performing load balancing, as well as other features (SSL offload, proxy/reverse proxy, a firewall for web applications, and more).

legacy applications

having a virtual machine allows an app which is incompatible with the user's current operating system to run on a different operating system.

fixed license

a fixed duration license is simply a license to a piece of software for a defined period of time.

Multi-tenancy

The cloud means that a single instance of a system serves multiple customers

pooled capacity licensing

Pooled licenses provide shared access. In this model, a group of users can connect to one or multiple Intermapper servers licensed with a Pooled license from any Remote Access computer at the same time or separately.

low-code development

Software development approach that enables the creation of workable software with minimal hand coding.

SMB (Server Message Block)

A protocol that works on the Application layer and is used to share files, serial ports, printers, and communications
devices, including mail slots and named pipes, between computers.

democratizing

a force to make everyone equal