Amplify |
An AWS service that consists of a library as well as a platform for hosting web applications. It provides easy deployments, custom domains and free SSL certificates. |
https://aws.amazon.com/de/amplify/ |
Angular |
A popular web application framework written in TypeScript and provided by Google. |
https://angular.io/ |
API Gateway |
An AWS service that allows one to easily host APIs and make them accessible through HTTP. It has various features such as caching and authorization. |
https://aws.amazon.com/de/api-gateway/ |
AWS |
Amazon Web Services. The cloud offering of Amazon. |
https://aws.amazon.com/ |
Data Lake |
An alternative approach of handling data integration and analytics than Data Warehouses. Quite contrary to Data Warehouses, which are schema-on-write, Data Lakes are schema-on-read. This means the data is loaded into the database without changing its format. Only when read, the format is changed to the target system needs. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_lake |
DynamoDB |
A NoSQL database offered by AWS. |
https://aws.amazon.com/de/dynamodb/ |
EC2 |
An AWS service that provides servers (based mainly on Linux) and is billed hourly based on the usage. |
https://aws.amazon.com/de/ec2/ |
ETF |
Exchanged Traded Funds. An index fund that is traded on a stock exchange and can be bought and sold similarly to shares. |
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/etf.asp |
Lambda |
An AWS service that allows one to host functions written in a variety of languages in the cloud without having to manage a server. These functions can then be called by other services such as API Gateway. |
https://aws.amazon.com/de/lambda/ |
Materialize |
A front-end framework based on Material Design. |
https://materializecss.com/ |
Material Design |
Design principles developed by Google. |
https://material.io/ |
Polyglot Persistence |
The idea that it is better to use a different database tailored for each use case instead of one single database. For example, using a time series database for prices and a document database for static ETF data. |
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/PolyglotPersistence.html |
RDS |
An AWS service for relational databases. It allows one to use a database such as MySQL in the cloud. |
https://aws.amazon.com/de/rds/ |
React |
A popular web application framework made by Facebook. |
https://reactjs.org/ |
Serverless Framework |
A framework used to automatically provision infrastructure (such as Lambda functions). |
https://www.serverless.com/ |
REST |
REST stands for Representational State Transfer. It describes a set of rules on how systems can communicate with each other. The central concept is that of a resource, which is basically an object. Systems using REST are stateless. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer |