| O&M | Operations and Maintenance | Operations and maintenance. | Management & Processes | The process of keeping a system operational after deployment. | |
| OAuth | Open Authorization | You give an app access to your data on another service without giving away your password. | Security | Like entrusting keys to a friend when he's with his girlfriend, but with restrictions — don't make a mess and leave by evening. | |
| OCSP | Online Certificate Status Protocol | A protocol for checking the status of digital certificates. | Security | Checks if a certificate has been revoked in real-time. Essentially, the migration service in the digital world. | |
| OKR | Objectives and Key Results | A goal-setting system. | Management & Processes | Define goals and key results to achieve them. Simply: what we want and what we'll do to get it. | |
| OOP | Object-Oriented Programming | A programming paradigm where code is organized as objects. | Development | It's like building with Lego bricks instead of clay. You have ready-made parts (objects) with their own properties (color, size) and methods (how to connect them). You can create new parts based on existing ones (inheritance). Everything is clear, understandable, and easy to rebuild. | |
| ORM | Object-Relational Mapping | A technology that maps data between incompatible systems. | Data | Turns tables into objects. | |
| OSPF | Open Shortest Path First | An open-source routing protocol. | Network & Infrastructure | Finds the shortest path for packets in the network. | |
| OWL | Web Ontology Language | A language for creating ontologies. | Data | Used to describe knowledge on the web. | |
| OWL-Time | Ontology for time description | An extension of OWL for working with temporal data and intervals. | Data | For working with time in ontologies. | OWL |