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Contents:

• Development
  • API
  • Auth
  • Testing
  • CI+CD
• Operations
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Server software
  • Server operation

Architecture:

• REST
• GraphQL
• Remote procedure call (RPC)
• WebSocket

Communication:

• Cap'n Proto
• Protocol Buffers by Google
• FlatBuffers by Google
• eProsima Fast Buffers
• Apache Thrift
• Apache Avro

Formats:

• JSON
• XML
• Comma-separated values (CSV)
• Tab-separated values (TSV)

Authentication and authorization areas:

• OAuth
• Basic access authentication
• Token authentication
• Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
• JSON Web Token (JWT)
• OpenID Connect
• Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
• Active Directory (AD)
• Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
• Single sign on (SSO)
• Federated identity

Authentication as a service:

• Okta
• Auth0
• Google Sign-In
• Facebook Login

Test types:

• Unit testing
• Functional testing
• Integration testing
• System testing
• Load testing
• Fuzz testing
• Penetration testing
• Regression testing
• Operational acceptance testing
• Destructive testing
• Security testing

Test frameworks:

• Selenium
• Cypress
• TestCafe
• Mocha
• Chai
• Ava
• Karma
• Jasmine
• Protractor
• Jest
• Enzyme
• american fuzzy lop

Continuous integration and continuous deployment:

• Jenkins
• Travis CI
• CircleCI
• Teamcity
• Drone

Provision:

• Terraform by Hashicorp
• AWS CloudFormation

Configure:

• RedHat Ansible
• Chef
• Puppet
• SaltStack

Orchestrate:

• Kubernetes
• Apache Mesos
• Docker Swarm
• Nomad by Hashicorp

Containers:

• Docker
• rkt - pronounced "rocket"
• LXC - Linux containers

Cloud providers:

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Microsoft Azure
• Rackspace Cloud
• Digital Ocean

Platform as a service:

• Heroku
• Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF)
• SAP Cloud Platform

Server software types:

• Web server
• Credential server
• Database server for SQL
• Database server for NoSQL
• Database server for graphs
• Database as a service
• Email server
• Email as a service
• Messaging server
• Search server
• Reverse proxy server
• Object cache server
• Load balancer
• Firewall

Web server:

• NGINX
• Apache HTTP Server
• Apache Tomcat
• Caddy
• Microsoft IIS

Credential server:

• Vault by Hashicorp
• AWS Key Management Service

Database server for relational data and SQL:

• PostgreSQL
• MySQL
• Amazon Aurora
• Oracle
• MariaDB
• Microsoft SQL Server

Database server for freeform data and NoSQL:

• Cloud Spanner by Google
• CockroachDB
• Apache Cassandra
• MongoDB
• RethinkDB
• Couchbase
• ArangoDB

Database server for graph data and GraphQL:

• Neo4j
• Amazon Nepture
• OrientDB
• Titan Database
• RedisGraph

Database as a service:

• AWS Relational Database Service (RDS)
• Google BigQuery
• Microsoft Azure Cloud SQL Database
• IBM Db2 on Cloud
• SAP Cloud Platform, SAP HANA Service

Email server:

• Postfix
• Sendmail

Email as a service:

• AWS Simple Email Service (SMS)
• Mandrill by Mailchimp
• SendGrid
• SendInBlue
• MailGun
• Mailjet
• Postmark
• Elastic Email

Chat server or services:

• IRC
• Mattermost
• Slack

Message server:

• RabbitMQ
• ZeroMQ
• Apache Kafka

Search server:

• Elasticsearch
• Apache Lucene
• Apache Solr
• Sphinx

Reverse proxy:

• Varnish Cache
• NGINX reverse proxy
• Squid caching proxy

Object cache server:

• Memcached
• Apache Ignite
• Redis

Load balancer:

• AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk (EB)
• AWS Fargate
• TODO

Firewall:

• IPFW
• AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF)
• TODO

Admnistration areas:

• Process management
• Threads and concurrency
• Sockets
• Memory/storage
• I/O Management
• Virtualization
• File systems

Infrastructure monitoring:

• Datadog
• Nagios
• Icinga
• Zabbix
• Graphite

Application monitoring:

• Monit
• AppDynamics
• New Relic

Log monitoring:

• Splunk
• Sumo Logic
• ELK Stack
• Graylog
• Papertrail

Networking:

• HTTP
• SSL
• TLS
• FTP
• DNS
• VPN
• NAT