Amazon S3 or Amazon Simple Storage Service
- A service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides object storage through a web service interface. [Wikipedia link]
Cloud Computing
The on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. [Wikipedia link]
Data Lake
A repository of data stored in its natural/raw format, usually object blobs or files. [Wikipedia link]
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
A markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data. [Wikipedia link]
Extract, transform, load (ETL)
A three-phase process where data is extracted, transformed (cleaned, sanitized, scrubbed) and written (loaded) to a data destination. [Wikipedia link]
GraphQL
An API type that supports JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)-structured queries to get the exact data needed without using multiple endpoints. [Wikipedia link]
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
An application-layer protocol for transmitting hypermedia documents, such as HTML. The foundation of the World Wide Web.[Wikipedia link]
Perl
An interpreted computer programming language written by Larry Wall, primarily for text data processing. Often referred to as the "system admin's Swiss-army chainsaw." [Wikipedia link]
Representational State Transfer (REST)
A software architectural style that was created to guide the design and development of the architecture for the World Wide Web. [Wikipedia link]
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
A messaging protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of web services in computer networks. [Wikipedia link]
Structured Query Language (SQL)
A standard language for storing, manipulating and retrieving data in relational databases. [Wikipedia link]
Tableau
A visual analytics and business intelligence software program. [Wikipedia link]
Technical Debt
The implied cost of future reworking that will be needed when using an easy-but-limited solution instead of a better approach that would take more time. [Wikipedia link]
Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
A unique sequence of characters that identifies a logical or physical resource used by web technologies, such as a standard web address (http://wisc.edu). Although URL is a specific type of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), the terms are often used interchangeably. [Wikipedia link]