<b>Glossary v1.4</b>

Glossary

Term ๐Ÿ” Non-Technical Description ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Technical Description ๐Ÿ—ƒ๏ธ Seen In / Tools
๐Ÿ” ACIDA reliable bank transfer: all or nothing.Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability.PostgreSQL, Oracle
๐Ÿงช AI/ML Scenario BlueprintDesign your modelโ€™s storyline.Scenario framing with goals, data, stakeholders.Whiteboard decks, ML canvas
๐ŸŒ€ AI/ML Cloud BlueprintEnd-to-end cloud ML pattern.Includes ingestion, training, inference, monitoring.Databricks, SageMaker
๐Ÿค– Applied AI/MLUseful modelsโ€”not just hype.Deployed, monitored models solving real tasks.MLflow, dashboards
๐Ÿง˜ BASELooser than ACID, good enough for now.Basically Available, Soft state, Eventual consistency.Cassandra, Couchbase
๐Ÿข BSSBilling, CRM, and commercial bits of telecoms.Handles billing, orders, customer relationships.Salesforce, Amdocs
โš–๏ธ CAP TheoremYou canโ€™t have all three: C, A, P.Only two of Consistency, Availability, Partition Tolerance possible.DynamoDB, HBase
๐Ÿ”„ CRUD MappingWho can do what to which data?Create, Read, Update, Delete lifecycle mapped to business ops.APIs, Integration specs
๐Ÿ“˜ Data-Centric ThinkingDesign around trustworthy data.Data-first design with governance, semantics, CRUD.Star schemas, canonical models
๐Ÿงณ Data PassportA metadata ID card for your dataset.Classification, ownership, retention, lineage.Unity Catalog, Collibra
๐Ÿ” Data Quality GatesStop dirty data before it hurts.Validation rules before model input or output.Great Expectations, Airflow
๐Ÿงญ Data BlueprintDataโ€™s playbookโ€”what, why, and how.Entity models, flows, CRUD, governance overlays.DFDs, semantic maps
๐Ÿ“ Feature Engineering BlueprintPrepping inputs for model cooking.Transforms, feature store logic, encoding patterns.MLflow, Delta Lake
๐Ÿ‘ฅ Federated GovernanceCentral rules, local control.Global policies with domain-led stewardship.Data Mesh, Unity Catalog
๐Ÿฅ Healthcare ScenarioAI/ML for triage, diagnostics, operations.Domain-specific models with clinical framing.NHS dashboards
๐Ÿ” Iterative DeliveryWork in slices. Rinse and repeat.Sprint-based delivery in architecture and data.Scrum, Kanban
๐Ÿ” LineageWhere data came from, who touched it.End-to-end trace of transformations and movement.Unity Catalog, Informatica
๐Ÿ—‚๏ธ Master DataCore entities reused everywhere.High-value shared business objects.SAP MDG, Oracle DRM
๐Ÿ“Š Model MonitoringKeep your model honest and fresh.Track drift, bias, performance. Trigger retrain.MLflow, Prometheus
๐Ÿงฑ DatabricksLakehouse Swiss Army knife.Platform for streaming, batch, ML, SQL.Unity Catalog, AutoLoader
โ„๏ธ SnowflakeElastic cloud data warehouse.Shared-data architecture with compute scale-out.Time Travel, Streams
๐Ÿ™ KrakenThe digital engine room behind smart energy retailersโ€”fast, flexible, and surprisingly human for a platform.Cloud-native SaaS by Kraken Technologies for energy providers, covering billing, CX, and smart grid ops with scalable API-first architecture.Octopus Energy, E.ON Next, Kraken Flex
๐Ÿ› ๏ธ OSSThe engineers of the telco stack.Manages provisioning, monitoring, repair workflows.ServiceNow, Netcool
๐Ÿ›๏ธ ERPBusiness HQ: finance, HR, logistics.Integrated suite for core enterprise functions.SAP, Oracle, Dynamics
๐Ÿ“‹ RAID LogYour project stress list: risks, issues, etc.Tracks Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies.Excel, PMO packs
๐Ÿงพ Universal JournalSAPโ€™s all-in-one accounting ledger.Table ACDOCA capturing all line items in S/4HANA.SAP S/4 Finance