CS Glossary

A quick index into abbreviations I encounter in the domain of computer science

Abbrev	Expansion
ACME	Not a Company Making Everything
API	Application Programming Interface
BIOS	Basic Input/Output System
BLOB	Binary Large Object
CDN	Content Delivery Network
DNS	Domain Name System
DoS	Denial of Service
HTTP	Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
IAM	Identity and Access Management
IETF	Internet Engineering Task Force
IP	Internet Protocol
IRC	Internet Relay Chat
LDAP	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
Linux PAM	Linux Pluggable Authentication Module
MFA	Multi-Factor Authentication
NTP	Network Time Protocol
NUMA	Non Uniform Memory Access
OIDC	OpenID Connect
PoP	Point of Presence
RFC	Request For Comments
SAML	Security Assertion Markup Language
SDLC	Software Development Life Cycle
SHA	Secure Hash Algorithms
SMS	Short Message Service
SMTP	Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SPOF	Single Point of Failure
SSE	Server Sent Events
SSL	Secure Sockets Layer: Precursor to TLS
SSO	Single Sign-On
TLS	Transport Layer Security
UEFI	Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
URL	Uniform Resource Locator
UTF	Unicode Transformation Format
JWT	JSON Web Tokens
FFT	Fast Fourier Transform
CUDA	Compute Unified Device Architecture
AMQP	Advanced Message Queuing Protocol