Category: Glossary

Developer experience encompasses all interactions developers have with tools, processes, and systems, impacting productivity and satisfaction.

Platform as a product applies product management principles to internal developer platforms, treating developers as customers.

A golden path is a recommended, pre-built workflow or template that makes it easy for developers to follow best practices by default.

An on-call rotation is a schedule where team members take turns being the primary responder for production incidents.

Pod Security Standards define three security levels — Privileged, Baseline, and Restricted — to enforce consistent Kubernetes pod security.

SLSA is a security framework that protects the integrity of software artifacts throughout the supply chain.

Falco is an open-source runtime security tool that detects anomalous behavior and threats in containers and Kubernetes in real time.

The sidecar pattern deploys a helper container alongside the main application container in a pod, extending functionality without code changes.

Linkerd is a lightweight, CNCF-graduated service mesh for Kubernetes providing observability, security, and reliability with minimal complexity.

A Pod Disruption Budget limits the number of pods that can be voluntarily disrupted at once, ensuring minimum availability during maintenance.