Software Architecture

MS Exchange Server

A mail server developed by Microsoft that provides email, scheduling, and tools for custom collaboration and messaging service applications, runs exclusively on Windows OS.

Mule

A lightweight and highly scalable Java-based ESB and integration framework, which integrates 3 and more applications, provides more than one type of communication protocol.

MVC

Model-View-Controller is a software architectural pattern for implementing user interfaces. Model – manipulates the data, View – displays the data and Controller – controls the change in model.

MVP

Model-View-Presenter is a software architectural pattern for implementing user interfaces. Model – manipulates the data, View – displays the data and Presenter – manages everything.

MVVM

Model-View-ViewModel is a software architectural pattern for implementing user interfaces. Model – manipulates the data, View – displays the data and ViewModel – an intermediate link that controls all interconnections.

OOD

Object-Oriented Design is the process of planning a system of interacting objects for the purpose of solving a software problem. It is one approach to software design.

OpenMP

Open Multi-Processing - an API intended for programming multi-threaded applications on multiprocessor systems with shared memory. The task is divided into several threads where they are run in parallel on a machine with multiple processors much more faster.

Protobuf

A structured data transfer protocol. It is simpler, more compact and faster than XML, because binary data is optimized for the minimum size of the message.

REST

Representational State Transfer is an architectural style of the interaction of components of the distributed application in a network. REST is an agreed set of constraints.

RESTful API

An API that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. A RESTful API breaks down a transaction to create a series of small modules. Each module addresses a particular underlying part of the transaction.

Retrofit

A REST Client for Android and Java that makes it easy to retrieve and upload JSON via a REST based web service, allows to configure which converter is used for the data serialization.

RRAS

Routing and Remote Access Service is a Microsoft API and server software that makes it possible to create applications to administer the routing and remote access service capabilities of the operating system.

Shiny

A framework for developing interactive, web-based tools with R. It assists you with turning your analyses into interactive web applications without requiring HTML, CSS, or JavaScript knowledge.

SOA

Service-Oriented Architecture is an architectural pattern in which application components provide services to other components via a communications protocol, typically over a network.

SOAP

Simple Object Access Protocol is a messaging protocol, allowing programs/apps that run on different operating systems to communicate using HTTP,  XML and other protocols.

SSOT

Stands for Single Source of Truth. Refers to the concept where certain data has only one official source to be used by data consumers for the true current version of that data.

Software Architecture

A structure or a set of structures of the system, which contains software elements, relations among them, as well as externally visible properties of those elements.

SOLID

An abbreviation for the 'first five principles' of OOD and OOP. These basic principles help to create good software architecture. SOLID – SRP, OCP, LSP, ISP, DIP.

Solution Architecture

Solution architecture is a practice of defining and describing an architecture of a system delivered in context of a specific solution and as such it may encompass description of an entire system or only its specific parts.

Swagger

A software framework for an Open API that is a specification for machine-readable interface files for describing, producing, consuming, and visualizing RESTful Web Services.

System Architecture

Systems Architecture is a generic discipline to handle objects (existing or to be created) called "systems", in a way that supports reasoning about the structural properties of these objects.

UML

Unified Modeling Language is a standardized modeling language used to specify, visualize, construct, and document models of software systems, including their structure and design.

Web Application

A Web application (Web app) is an application program that is stored on a remote server and delivered over the Internet through a browser interface. 

Web Development

Web development broadly refers to the tasks associated with developing websites for hosting via intranet or internet. The web development process includes web design, web content development, client-side/server-side scripting and network security configuration, among other tasks.

Web services

Open standard (XML, SOAP, HTTP, UDDI, etc.) based web applications that interact with other web applications or users for the purpose of exchanging data.