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AWS

Amazon Web Services is a subsidiary of Amazon providing on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis.

Cowboy

A small, fast and modern HTTP server for Erlang/OTP.

Docker

A set of platform as s service (PaaS) products that use OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers.

Elixir

A functional, concurrent, general-purpose programming language that runs on the BEAM virtual machine used to implement the Erlang programming language. It is used to build low-latency, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.

Event Stream

A Kafka topic on the Datastillery platform that all Datastillery micro services listen to.

Helm

A package manager for Kubernetes that allows developers and operators to more easily package, configure, and deploy applications and services onto Kubernetes clusters.

Jenkins

A free and open source automation server. It helps automate the parts of software development related to building, testing, and deploying, facilitating continuous integration and continuous delivery.

Kafka

An open-source stream-processing software platform developed by the Apache Software Foundation, written in Scala and Java.

Kubernetes

An open-source container-orchestration system for automating computer application deployment, scaling, and management.

Mix

A build tool that provides tasks for creating, compiling, and testing Elixir project, managing its dependencies, and more.

Nginx

A web server that can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy and HTTP cache.

Node.js

An open-source, cross-platform, back-end, JavaScript runtime environment that executes JavaScript code outside a web browser.

npm

Is a package manager for the JavaScript programming language.

Phoenix

A web framework built with the Elixir programming language.

Phoenix LiveView

An elixir library/behavior which provides rich, real-time user experiences with server-side-rendered HTML.

PostgreSQL

Also known as Postgres, is a free and open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) emphasizing extensibility and SQL compliance.

React

React (also known as React.js or ReactJS) is an open-source, front-end JavaScript library for building user interfaces or UI components.

Redis (Remote Dictionary Server)

An in-memory data structure project implementing a distributed, in-memory key-value database with optional durability.

Terraform

A tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions.

Travis

A hosted continuous integration service used to build and test software projects hosted at GitHub and Bitbucket.

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