ops culture terms
378 glossary entries tagged ops culture, listed alphabetically.
- :-) (the first emoticon)
- "is it worth the time?"
- "there is no cloud, it's just someone else's computer"
- @ (the at sign in email)
- 2600 Magazine2600: The Hacker Quarterly
- 418 I'm a teapotHyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP)
- 42 (the Answer)
- a hacker scene (regional scenes)
- a lista do Anchises (Brazilian security profiles)
- a patchy server
- Aaron Swartz
- Ada Lovelace
- AgileAgile software development (the 2001 Manifesto and its family)
- alarm storm
- alert fatigue
- all models are wrong
- all your base are belong to us
- AltaVista
- amateur radio
- Anchises Moraes
- Anonymous
- Apache HTTP Server (httpd)
- Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
- archive formats (zip, tar, gz, 7z, rar, iso, cab)
- asset
- autoscaling
- Babel Fish
- backhoe fade
- backup
- backup vs. snapshot
- belt and suspenders
- BHack
- big ball of mud
- bikesheddingParkinson's Law of Triviality
- bisection
- bit bucket
- bit rot
- BitKeeper (and the birth of Git)
- blameless postmortem
- blast radius
- blue screen of death
- blue team
- Bob Kahn
- Bob Metcalfe
- boil the ocean
- borked
- braindump
- Brooks's law
- brownout
- bug (the first computer bug)
- burn rate
- bus factor
- callsign
- canary
- canary in the coal mine
- capacity
- Captain Crunch (the 2600 Hz whistle)
- Captain Midnight
- cargo cult programming
- cattle, not pets
- change management
- change management (ITSM)
- Chaos Computer ClubChaos Computer Club (CCC)
- Chaos Monkey
- Chesterton's fence
- choose boring technology
- Cisco certifications (CCNA / CCNP / CCIE)The Cisco certification ladder
- Citizens Band (CB)
- Clarke's third law
- Cliff Stoll
- Clippy
- COBITControl Objectives for Information and Related Technologies (ISACA)
- configuration drift
- containment
- Conway's law
- Copyleft
- Countdown to Zero Day (Zetter, 2014)
- cowboy coding
- crash cart
- Cristine Hoepers
- cruft
- Cunningham's law
- Cyberpunk (Hafner and Markoff, 1991)
- daemon
- DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
- debugging
- Deep Blue
- DEF CONDEF CON hacker conference
- Demi Getschko
- DevSecOps
- dogfooding
- Douglas Engelbart
- drift detection
- drink the Kool-Aid
- drinking from the firehose
- EFnet (Eris Free Net)
- ELIZA
- Elizabeth Feinler
- Emacs
- Emmanuel Goldstein (Eric Corley)
- EOLend of life
- escalation (operational)
- everything fails, all the time
- FAPESP
- fat-finger
- firefighting
- five nines
- flag day
- FLOSSFree/Libre and Open Source Software
- forklift upgrade
- free as in beer
- Free software (software livre)
- FUBARFouled Up Beyond All Recognition
- FUDFear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
- Gall's law
- Gambiarra
- Garoa Hacker ClubeGaroa Hacker Clube
- generative AI
- Ghost in the Wires (Mitnick, 2011)
- GIGOgarbage in, garbage out
- god box
- Godwin's law
- gold-plating
- golden image
- Goodhart's law
- googol
- Grace Hopper
- graceful degradation
- gray failure
- greenfield vs. brownfield
- Hackers (1995)
- Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (Levy, 1984)
- Hacktivism
- halt and catch fire (HCF)
- handover
- Hanlon's razor
- have you tried turning it off and on again?
- health check
- hello, world
- Hofstadter's law
- hope is not a strategy
- Hot / cold aisleHot-aisle / cold-aisle data-center layout and containment
- hotfix
- ID-10-T and friends
- idempotence
- if it hurts, do it more often
- illegal number
- immutable infrastructure
- incident
- infrastructure as codeinfrastructure as code (IaC)
- intermittent fault
- IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
- it's always DNS
- J.C.R. Licklider
- Jeitinho
- John Markoff
- Jon Postel
- Jude Milhon (St. Jude)
- KanbanKanban (Toyota's pull system, adapted to knowledge work)
- keep the lights on
- kernel
- KISSKeep It Simple, Stupid
- kludge
- KubernetesKubernetes (K8s)
- lamer, noob, newbie, script kiddie
- LANELAN Emulation (over ATM)
- large language model (LLM)
- layer 8
- leet (1337, eleet)
- LGTMlooks good to me
- Liane Tarouco
- Libera.Chat and the freenode exodus
- Linus Torvalds
- Linus's law
- logging
- maintenance window
- Margaret Hamilton
- memory leak
- Metcalfe's law
- metrics
- Midori (Microsoft's post-Windows research OS)
- Moore's law
- Morse code / CW
- move fast and break things
- Mr. Robot (2015-2019)
- MTAMail Transfer Agent
- MTTR
- mungMung Until No Good
- Murphy's law
- nerd snipe
- Netsplit (and riding the split)
- Neuromancer (Gibson, 1984)
- never touch a running system
- NICE Framework Work Role Categories
- no plan survives contact
- no silver bullet
- noisy neighbor
- not invented hereNot Invented Here
- nuke and pave
- O Rei da Internet (2026)
- observability
- observer effect
- OKRObjectives and Key Results
- on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog
- open relay
- Open source
- Pager
- Parkinson's law
- patch
- Patch Tuesday, Exploit Wednesday
- pcap or it didn't happen
- PEBKACproblem exists between keyboard and chair
- percussive maintenance
- perfect is the enemy of good
- Phrack
- pizza box
- Poe's law
- post-incident review
- postmortem
- problem management
- QAquality assurance
- rabbit hole
- Rack (19-inch) and rack unit19-inch equipment rack and the rack unit (U)
- Radia Perlman
- RAIDRedundant Array of Independent Disks
- RAID is not a backup
- read-only Friday
- Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal
- RedditReddit (community platform; the vendor and networking subreddits)
- regression
- regression testing
- reserva de mercadoBrazilian informatics market reserve (1984-1992)
- retention
- RFCRequest for Comments
- RFC 1149 (IP over Avian Carriers)
- Richard Stallman (rms)
- rollback
- root causeroot cause analysis (RCA)
- rough consensus and running code
- RTFMread the fine manual
- RTO and RPORecovery Time and Recovery Point Objectives
- runbook
- SampaSecSampaSec (Sao Paulo CitySec meetup)
- Sandro Süffert
- SATAN (the 1995 scanner panic)
- Schroedinger's backup
- scope creep
- Security Leaders
- Segal's law
- semantic versioning
- Services company
- SEV1
- severity
- severity levels (P1-P4)
- shadow ITShadow IT
- shelfware
- shell
- shift-left
- single pane of glass
- single point of failure
- single source of truth
- six degrees of separation
- SLOService Level Objective
- slow is smooth, smooth is fast
- SNAFUSituation Normal, All Fouled Up
- sneakernet
- Sneakers (1992)
- Snow Crash (Stephenson, 1992)
- snowflake server
- SOCSecurity Operations Center
- somebody set up us the bomb
- spam filter
- split-brain
- Steve Crocker
- Sturgeon's law
- Stuxnet
- surveillance capitalism
- swivel-chair integration
- systemd
- tabletop exercise
- TAC
- Tadao Takahashi
- Takedown (Shimomura and Markoff, 1996)
- technical debt
- telemetry
- test automation
- testing in production
- the 'room 404' myth
- the 3-2-1 backup rule
- the 414s
- the 500-mile email
- the 640K quote
- The Art of Deception (Mitnick, 2002)
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar
- the cobra effect
- the Cuckoo's Egg
- the demo gods
- the ENIAC programmers
- the ether / aether
- the Fail Whale
- the first .com domain
- the first banner ad
- the first email
- the first spam email
- the first tweet
- the first web page
- the GNU Manifesto
- the golden hammer
- the Great Split (IRC, 1996)
- the Green Card spam
- the Hacker Manifesto
- the Homebrew Computer Club
- the ILOVEYOU virus
- the IOCCCInternational Obfuscated C Code Contest
- the Knight Capital glitch
- the Konami Code
- the lawsuit that created ZIP
- the leap second
- the map is not the territory
- the Mars Climate Orbiter
- The Matrix (1999)
- the Max Headroom incident
- The Mentor (Loyd Blankenship)
- the Morris Worm
- the Mother of All Demos
- the ninety-ninety rule
- the north star metric
- the Pentium FDIV bug
- the Peter principle
- the Scene
- the second-system effect
- The Shockwave Rider (Brunner, 1975)
- the Slashdot effect
- the street finds its own uses for things
- the Streisand effect
- the Swiss cheese model
- the Trojan Room coffee pot
- the Turing test
- the two-pizza team
- the wall of confusion
- the WinRAR licence
- the Year 2038 problem
- there are no solutions, only trade-offs
- ticket ping-pong
- tiger team
- TL;DRtoo long; didn't read
- toil
- top talkers
- Tosconf
- Training organisation
- triage
- tribal knowledge
- two is one, one is none
- Underground (Dreyfus and Assange, 1997)
- UNICAMP
- Unix
- Usenet
- USP
- UUCP (Unix-to-Unix Copy)
- vaporware
- vi / Vim
- Vint Cerf
- VLC (VideoLAN Client)
- WannaCry
- war room
- WarGames (1983)
- wetware
- Wietse Venema
- Wiring closetWiring closet / telecom room (MDF and IDF)
- Wirth's law
- wizard
- workaround
- works on my machine
- worse is better
- Xerox PARC
- Y2Kthe Year 2000 problem
- yak shaving
- you build it, you run it