Jargon

Cockroach Labs Tech words for non-tech people

Focusing here on those words you won't find otherwise explained on our blog:

• AWS (Amazon Web Services): Amazon's Cloud hosting
• Azure: Microsoft's Cloud hosting
• Bikeshed: many engineers spending a lot of time debating a minor issue - see the story here
• Blue: test cluster on Azure
• Chaos: testing method that stops nodes in a test cluster unpredictably
• Chaos monkey: program that performs chaos testing
• CI (Continuous integration): program that runs tests and produces reports automatically in the background
• Code yellow: moving an issue to top company priority (comes from Google)
• Delta: test cluster on GCE
• Gamma: test cluster on GCE
• GCE (Google Compute Engine): Google's Cloud hosting
• Git: a tool and database to store and share source code
• Production monkey: person deploying new versions and maintaining test clusters during a week
• Reg cluster: prod cluster on GCE storing our usage stats
• Rho: test cluster on GCE
• Team City: one of our continuous integration tools