Technical Glossary
Terms and acronyms used in the Technology department at Patria.
Business
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| PE | Private Equity |
| Infra | Infrastructure Fund |
| RE | Real Estate |
| AUM | Assets Under Management |
| LP | Limited Partner — fund investor |
| GP | General Partner — fund manager |
| NAV | Net Asset Value |
| Capital Call | Capital call to LPs |
| Portco | Portfolio Company — PE portfolio company |
| TPA | Third Part Administrator |
Technology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| ADR | Architecture Decision Record |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| BigQuery | Google Cloud Platform managed data warehouse |
| CI/CD | Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment |
| Cloud Run | Serverless container service on GCP |
| DAG | Directed Acyclic Graph — Airflow pipeline unit |
| Entra ID | Current name for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) |
| GCP | Google Cloud Platform |
| IAM | Identity and Access Management |
| ITSM | IT Service Management |
| LGPD | Brazilian General Data Protection Law |
| MkDocs | Static site generator for technical documentation |
| MVP | Minimum Viable Product |
| N8N | Low-code workflow automation tool |
| RPA | Robotic Process Automation |
| SLA | Service Level Agreement |
| SLO | Service Level Objective |
| UIPath | RPA platform |
| Static Web App | Azure Static Web Apps — static site hosting |
Processes
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Change | Planned modification to production systems |
| Go-live | Moment a system or feature goes into production |
| Hotfix | Emergency fix in production |
| Incident | Interruption or degradation of a service |
| Kickoff | Project start meeting |
| On-call | Technical support duty rotation |
| Postmortem | Post-incident analysis for learning |
| Squad | Multidisciplinary team responsible for a domain or system |
| Runbook | Documented step-by-step operational procedure |
Tags used in this portal
The tags below are used in .md file front matter to facilitate search:
System Runbook ADR Postmortem API Data AI Support Project Architecture Security LGPD GCP Azure TOTVS ServiceNow UIPath N8N BigQuery