There exists an alphabet soup of acronyms and abbreviations within Information Technology. Included here are some of those that are important for any IT technologist to at least be aware of – but better yet to understand with some depth.
- AJAX – Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
- ALM – Application Lifecycle Management
- API - Application Program Interface
- BI – Business Intelligence
- CSS – Cascading Style Sheet
- ERD – Entity-Relationship Diagram
- ETL – Extract, Transform and Load
- HTML – Hyper Text Markup Language
- HTTP – Hypertext Transfer Protocol
- LAMP – Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python software bundle
- MDM – Master Data Management
- MVC - Model/View/Controller
- ODS – Operational Data Store
- OOD – Object Oriented Design
- POJO – Plain Old Java Object
- REST – Representational State Transfer
- RIA – Rich Internet Application
- RPC – Remote Procedure Call
- RSS – Really Simple Syndication
- SaaS – Software as a Service
- SDLC – Software Development Life Cycle
- SEO – Search Engine Optimization
- SLA – Service Level Agreement
- SLA – Service Level Agreement
- SOA – Service Oriented Architecture
- SOAP – Simple Object Access Protocol
- SQL – Structured Query Language
- SSO – Single Sign On
- TDD – Test Driven Development
- UML – Unified Modeling Language
- URI – Uniform Resource Identifier
- WSDL – Web Services Description Language
- XML – Extensible Markup Language
If you are not familiar with these, I strongly suggest you look them up. Google, Bing or Yahoo will do as a start.