Glossary
- actionable alert
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An alert that, when triggered, contains a step-by-step process that the on-call rotation can follow to triage, mitigate, and resolve the alert.
- alerting
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The practice of notifying an on-call developer (or developers) when one of a service’s key metrics has reached a critical or warning alert threshold.
- alert threshold
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Static or dynamic quantities that are set for each key metric signifying that the key metric in question is at a normal, warning, or critical level; reaching the threshold should trigger an actionable alert.
- application platform layer
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The third layer of a microservice ecosystem, containing self-service internal tools, the development environment, test, package, build, and release tools, the deployment pipeline, microservice-level logging, and microservice-level monitoring.
- application programming interface (API)
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A well-defined client-side interface in each microservice that allows other services to interact with it programmatically by sending requests to static endpoints.
- architecture diagram
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A high-level visual representation of the architecture of a microservice.
- architecture review
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An organizational practice and process for evaluating, understanding, and improving the architecture of a microservice.
- bare metal
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The term used to refer to servers owned, run, and maintained by the organization itself, as opposed to hardware rented from so-called cloud providers.
- canary
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The second stage of the deployment pipeline containing ...
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