Conway’s Law | Glossary

Definition:

Conway’s law is an observation that the design of any system is significantly affected by the communications structure of the organization that develops it. The law is based on the reasoning that in order for a software module to function, multiple authors must communicate frequently with each other.Therefore, the software interface structure of a system will reflect the social boundaries of the organization(s) that produced it, across which communication is more difficult.

Further Reading:

Book: The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, Jez Humble,Patrick Debois.

 

StatsD | Glossary

Definition:

StatsD is originally an easy daemon developed and released by Etsy to aggregate and summarize application metrics. With StatsD, applications are to be instrumented by developers using language-specific client libraries. These libraries can then communicate with the StatsD daemon using its dead-simple protocol, and therefore the daemon will then generate aggregate metrics and relay them to virtually any graphing or monitoring backend.

Further Reading:

Book: The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, Jez Humble,Patrick Debois.