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Eleftheria Batsou
Eleftheria Batsou

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50 Acronyms Developers Use

I was wondering what acronyms does a developer use on a daily basis...

So I asked my lovely friends on Twitter๐Ÿ˜Š

Dry - Dont repeat yourself

Share one tech acronym with me

โ€” Eleftheria Batsou (@BatsouElef) February 20, 2021

Related to development:

  • KISS - Keep it simple stupid
  • DRY - Don't repeat yourself
  • DDD - Domain Driven Development
  • DHCP - Dynamic host configuration Protocol
  • MVP - Minimum Viable Product
  • MERN - Mongo DB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js
  • MVC - Model View Controller
  • MVP - Model View Presentation
  • LAMP - Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP
  • SQL - Structured query language.
  • WET - Write Every Time
  • ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode
  • API - Application Programming Interface
  • BDD - Behavior Driven Development
  • CRUD - Create Read Update Delete
  • CDN - content delivery network
  • CI/CD - continuous integration continues delivery
  • CORS- Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
  • RCA - Root Cause Analysis
  • RAII - Resource Aquisition Is Initialisation
  • REPL - Read Evaluate Print Loop
  • FOP - functional Oriented Programming
  • EDA - Event-Driven Architecture
  • TDD - Test Driven Development
  • TCP - Transmission Control Protocol!
  • POC - Proof Of Concept
  • SPA - Single Page Application
  • SRP - Single Responsibility Principle
  • K8s - Kubernetes
  • JSON - JavaScript Object Notification
  • PWA - Progressive Web App
  • LGTM - Looks good to merge (or Me)
  • Wysiwyg - what you see is what you get
  • WTFIGOWMC - What The Fk Is Going On With My Code

Some things I've NEVER thought of:

  • ACID - Atomic, Consistency, Isolation, Durability
  • AFK - Away From Keyboard
  • AID - Am I Audible?
  • ASAP - AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
  • DAMP - Descriptive and Meaningful Phrases
  • DIE - Duplication Is Evil
  • F.O.C.U.S - Follow One Course Until Successful
  • FYI - For Your Information
  • LTA - Learn Try Apply
  • OOF - Out of Facility
  • OOO - Out of Office
  • PEBCAK- Problem exists between chair and keyboard
  • SPOT - Single Point Of Truth
  • WFH - Work From Home
  • WPM - WTFs per minute
  • YAGNI - You aint gonna need it

Do you recognize any of these acronyms? Which ones do you use more often?


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brandon_wallace • Edited

Here are a few technology bases acronyms.

VIM - Vi Improved
FOSS - Free and open-source software
OS - Operating System
CLI - Command Line Interface
SSO - Single Sign-On
GUI - Graphical User Interface
DNS - Domain Name System
GNU - Gnu Is Not Unix
BSD - Berkeley Software Distribution
IoT - Internet Of Things
VPS - Virtual Private Server
SEO - Search Engine Optimization
CTA - Call to Action
UI/UX - User Interface/User Experience
SaaS - Software-as-a-Service
SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
EOF - End Of File
EOL - End Of Life
SSL - Secure Socket Layer
TLS - Transport Layer Security
CSRF - Cross-Site Request Forgery
DDoS - Distributed Denial Of Services
DKIM - Domain Keys Identified Mail
DMARC - Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance
LAN - Local Area Network
CPU - Central Processing Unit
RAM - Random Access Memory

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Christian Ledermann

There are too much to count, what I thought of immediately:
RFC - Request for comment
(D)DOS - (distributed) denial of service
WSGI - Web server gateway interface
SPOF - Single point of failure