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kena edited this page Nov 8, 2016 · 14 revisions

Cockroach Labs Tech words for non-tech people

Focusing here on those words you won't find otherwise explained on our blog:

  • AWS (Amazon Web Services): Amazon's Cloud hosting
  • Azure: Microsoft's Cloud hosting
  • Bikeshed: many engineers spending a lot of time debating a minor issue - see the story here
  • Blue: test cluster on Azure
  • Chaos: testing method that stops nodes in a test cluster unpredictably
  • Chaos monkey: program that performs chaos testing
  • CI (Continuous integration): program that runs tests and produces reports automatically in the background
  • Code yellow: moving an issue to top company priority (comes from Google)
  • Delta: test cluster on GCE
  • Gamma: test cluster on GCE
  • GCE (Google Compute Engine): Google's Cloud hosting
  • Git: a tool and database to store and share source code
  • Production monkey: person deploying new versions and maintaining test clusters during a week
  • Reg cluster: prod cluster on GCE storing our usage stats
  • Rho: test cluster on GCE
  • Team City: one of our continuous integration tools
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