--- title: "Glossary - Technical Terms and Definitions" lang: "en" author: "Mohammad Abu Mattar" canonical: https://mkabumattar.com/glossary/intermediate --- # Intermediate Glossary Every term written down at the Intermediate level. Difficulty[Any](/glossary)[Beginner](/glossary/beginner)[Intermediate](/glossary/intermediate)[Advanced](/glossary/advanced) ## 4 terms DifficultyAllBeginner (5)Intermediate (4)Advanced (1)CategoryAllDevops (4)Databases (2)Aws (1)Cloud (1)Fundamentals (1)Kubernetes (1)Linux (1)Networking (1)Platform (1)TagAllKubernetes (3)Ci cd (2)Docker (2)Orchestration (2)Administration (1)Automation (1)Aws (1)Basics (1)Cassandra (1)Cloud (1)Cni (1)Containers (1)Databases (1)Distributed systems (1)Dns (1)Dynamodb (1)Ec2 (1)Firewall (1)Graph databases (1)Iam (1)Indexes (1)Infrastructure (1)Ip address (1)Latency (1)Linux (1)Metrics (1)Mongodb (1)Monitoring (1)Networking (1)Normalization (1)Nosql (1)Observability (1)Operators (1)Osi (1)Pipelines (1)Platform (1)Postgresql (1)Rbac (1)S3 (1)Scheduling (1)Server (1)Serverless (1)Sql (1)Storage (1)Subnet (1)Sysadmin (1)Tcp ip (1)Terraform (1)Tracing (1)Transactions (1)Vpc (1)SortNewest firstOldest firstA to Z [![NoSQL Databases](/_astro/hero.CyWb3NTa_Z1fUU7u.webp)](/glossary/post/nosql-databases) ## [NoSQL Databases](/glossary/post/nosql-databases) - [Databases](/glossary/categories/databases) - 35 Terms - 20 Oct 2026 Choosing a NoSQL database is not one decision, it is two: which data model, then which consistency behaviour. Getting the first wrong is expensive because in most of these stores the access pattern is [#Nosql](/glossary/tags/nosql)[#Dynamodb](/glossary/tags/dynamodb)[#Mongodb](/glossary/tags/mongodb)+3 tags [View Glossary](/glossary/post/nosql-databases) [![Observability & Monitoring](/_astro/hero.D0Pm41Tc_1umMYO.webp)](/glossary/post/observability-and-monitoring) ## [Observability & Monitoring](/glossary/post/observability-and-monitoring) - [Devops](/glossary/categories/devops) - 35 Terms - 05 Sept 2026 A quick-reference glossary for making sense of system health: the three pillars (metrics, logs, traces), the reliability vocabulary (SLI, SLO, error budget, burn rate), how good alerting works, and th [#Observability](/glossary/tags/observability)[#Monitoring](/glossary/tags/monitoring)[#Metrics](/glossary/tags/metrics)+1 tags [View Glossary](/glossary/post/observability-and-monitoring) [![CI/CD & Automation](/_astro/hero.DTGfmUcf_Fms81.webp)](/glossary/post/ci-cd-and-automation) ## [CI/CD & Automation](/glossary/post/ci-cd-and-automation) - [Devops](/glossary/categories/devops) - 35 Terms - 23 Aug 2026 A quick-reference glossary of the terms you meet when automating builds, tests, and deployments: pipeline anatomy, test gates, and release strategies like canary and blue-green. [#Ci cd](/glossary/tags/ci-cd)[#Automation](/glossary/tags/automation)[#Pipelines](/glossary/tags/pipelines) [View Glossary](/glossary/post/ci-cd-and-automation) [![Cloud Computing on AWS](/_astro/hero.DGzICRow_2rLKwd.webp)](/glossary/post/cloud-computing-aws) ## [Cloud Computing on AWS](/glossary/post/cloud-computing-aws) - [Cloud](/glossary/categories/cloud) - [Aws](/glossary/categories/aws) - 51 Terms - 29 Jul 2026 This glossary covers the essential Amazon Web Services terms every cloud engineer and architect should know: compute, storage, networking, databases, and the identity controls that keep it all secure. [#Aws](/glossary/tags/aws)[#Cloud](/glossary/tags/cloud)[#Infrastructure](/glossary/tags/infrastructure)+5 tags [View Glossary](/glossary/post/cloud-computing-aws) ### [Categories](/glossary/categories) - [Devops4](/glossary/categories/devops) - [Cloud1](/glossary/categories/cloud) - [Aws1](/glossary/categories/aws) - [Databases2](/glossary/categories/databases) - [Kubernetes1](/glossary/categories/kubernetes) - [Platform1](/glossary/categories/platform) - [Linux1](/glossary/categories/linux) - [Networking1](/glossary/categories/networking) - [Fundamentals1](/glossary/categories/fundamentals) ### [Tags](/glossary/tags) [#Ci cd2](/glossary/tags/ci-cd)[#Automation1](/glossary/tags/automation)[#Pipelines1](/glossary/tags/pipelines)[#Aws1](/glossary/tags/aws)[#Cloud1](/glossary/tags/cloud)[#Infrastructure1](/glossary/tags/infrastructure)[#Ec21](/glossary/tags/ec2)[#S31](/glossary/tags/s3)[#Vpc1](/glossary/tags/vpc)[#Iam1](/glossary/tags/iam)[#Serverless1](/glossary/tags/serverless)[#Containers1](/glossary/tags/containers)[#Docker2](/glossary/tags/docker)[#Kubernetes3](/glossary/tags/kubernetes)[#Orchestration2](/glossary/tags/orchestration)[#Sql1](/glossary/tags/sql)[#Databases1](/glossary/tags/databases)[#Postgresql1](/glossary/tags/postgresql)[#Indexes1](/glossary/tags/indexes)[#Transactions1](/glossary/tags/transactions)[#Normalization1](/glossary/tags/normalization)[#Basics1](/glossary/tags/basics)[#Terraform1](/glossary/tags/terraform)[#Platform1](/glossary/tags/platform)[#Scheduling1](/glossary/tags/scheduling)[#Rbac1](/glossary/tags/rbac)[#Operators1](/glossary/tags/operators)[#Cni1](/glossary/tags/cni)[#Storage1](/glossary/tags/storage)[#Linux1](/glossary/tags/linux)[#Server1](/glossary/tags/server)[#Administration1](/glossary/tags/administration)[#Sysadmin1](/glossary/tags/sysadmin)[#Networking1](/glossary/tags/networking)[#Tcp ip1](/glossary/tags/tcp-ip)[#Dns1](/glossary/tags/dns)[#Ip address1](/glossary/tags/ip-address)[#Subnet1](/glossary/tags/subnet)[#Osi1](/glossary/tags/osi)[#Firewall1](/glossary/tags/firewall)[#Latency1](/glossary/tags/latency)[#Nosql1](/glossary/tags/nosql)[#Dynamodb1](/glossary/tags/dynamodb)[#Mongodb1](/glossary/tags/mongodb)[#Cassandra1](/glossary/tags/cassandra)[#Graph databases1](/glossary/tags/graph-databases)[#Distributed systems1](/glossary/tags/distributed-systems)[#Observability1](/glossary/tags/observability)[#Monitoring1](/glossary/tags/monitoring)[#Metrics1](/glossary/tags/metrics)[#Tracing1](/glossary/tags/tracing)