*[2FA]: Two-Factor Authentication
*[AOT]: Ahead-Of-Time compilation
*[API]: Application Programming Interface
*[ASF]: Apache Software Foundation
*[AWT]: Abstract Window Toolkit
*[BMP]: Basic Multilingual Plane
*[BOM]: Byte Order Mark
*[CI]: Continuous Integration
*[CD]: Continuous Delivery or Continuous Deployment
*[CORBA]: Common Object Request Broker Architecture
*[CPU]: Central Processing Unit
*[CRUD]: Create-Read-Update-Delete
*[CSPRNG]: Cryptographically Secure Pseudo-Random Number Generator
*[CSS]: Cascading Style Sheets
*[CSV]: Comma-Separated Values
*[DAO]: Data Access Object
*[DDL]: Data Definition Language
*[DML]: Data Manipulation Language
*[DRY]: Don't Repeat Yourself
*[DSL]: Domain-Specific Language
*[DTO]: Data Transfer Object
*[FI]: Functional Interface
*[GC]: Garbage Collection
*[GJSG]: Google Java Style Guide
*[CRUD]: Create-Read-Update-Delete
*[DRY]: Don't Reinvent Yourself
*[DTO]: Data Transfer Object
*[DVCS]: Distributed Version Control System
*[EAR]: Enterprise ARchive
*[ERD]: Entity-Relationship Diagram
*[ERDs]: Entity-Relationship Diagrams
*[FPU]: Floating-Point Unit
*[FSM]: Finite-State Machine
*[GC]: Garbage Collection (or Garbage Collector)
*[GIF]: Graphics Interchange Format
*[GUI]: Graphical User Interface 
*[HDD]: Hard-Disk Drive—an electromechanical, non-volatile storage device incorporating spinning platters coated with a magnetic medium
*[HTML]: HyperText Markup Language
*[HTTP]: HyperText Transfer Protocol
*[IAL]: Inline Attribute List
*[IDE]: Integrated Development Environment
*[IoC]: Inversion of Control
*[JAR]: Java ARchive
*[JCL]: Java Class Library
*[JCP]: Java Community Process
*[JDBC]: Java Database Connectivity
*[JDK]: Java Development Kit
*[J2EE]: Java 2 Enterprise Edition
*[J2ME]: Java 2 Micro Edition
*[J2SE]: Java 2 Standard Edition
*[JEE]: Jakarta Enterprise Edition (formerly Java Enterprise Edition)
*[JIT]: Just-In-Time compilation
*[JME]: Java Micro Edition
*[JNI]: Java Native Interface
*[JPEG]: Joint Photographic Experts Group
*[JPA]: Java Persistence API
*[jpg]: Joint Photographic Experts Group (3-character variation of JPEG, often used as a file extension)
*[JRE]: Java Runtime Environment
*[JSE]: Java Standard Edition
*[JSON]: JavaScript Object Notation
*[JVM]: Java Virtual Machine
*[JWT]: JSON Web Token
*[KISS]: Keep It Simple, Stupid
*[LMS]: Learning Management System
*[LTS]: Long-Term Support
*[MFA]: Multi-Factor Authentication
*[MPEG]: Motion Picture Experts Group
*[mp3]: MPEG audio layer III
*[mp4]: MPEG-4 with audio & video
*[mpa]: MPEG-4 with audio only
*[MVC]: Model-View-Controller
*[MVP]: Model-View-Presenter
*[MVVM]: Model-View-ViewModel
*[OOP]: Object-Oriented Programming
*[ORM]: Object-Relational Mapping
*[PII]: Personally Identifiable Information
*[PNG]: Portable Network Graphics
*[POJO]: Plain Old Java Object
*[PoLA]: Principle of Least Astonishment
*[PRNG]: Pseudo-Random Number Generator
*[RAM]: Random-Access Memory (volatile storage)
*[RDBMS]: Relational DataBase Management System
*[RDBMSs]: Relational DataBase Management Systems
*[regex]: Regular expression
*[REPL]: Read-Evaluate-Print Loop
*[REST]: REpresentational State Transfer
*[RMI]: Remote Method Invocation
*[RNG]: Random Number Generator
*[SDK]: Software Development Kit
*[SE]: SOftware Engineering
*[SOAP]: Simple Object Acces Protocol
*[SoC]: Separation of Concerns 
*[SOLID]: Acronym for the combination of Single-responsibility principle, Open-closed principle, Liskov substitution principle, Interface segregation principle, Dependency inversion principle
*[SQL]: Structured Query Language
*[SSD]: Solid-State Drive—a type of non-volatile storage that does not use spinning platters or other mechanical components
*[SSG]: SQL Style Guide
*[SSH]: Secure SHell protocol
*[SSL]: Secure Sockets Layer
*[SVG]: Scalable Vector Graphics
*[TDD]: Test-Driven Development
*[TFD]: Test-First Development
*[TAoCP]: "The Art of Computer Programming", by Donald Knuth—the definitive reference work on computational algorithms
*[TeX]: Typesetting system invented by Donald Knuth, used for formatting complex content flexibly yet precisely
*[TOC]: Table of Contents
*[VCS]: Version Control System
*[WAR]: Web application ARchive
*[XML]: eXtensible Markup Language
*[XML-RPC]: XML Remote Procedure Call
*[XP]: eXtreme Programming
*[XSD]: XML Schema Definition
*[XSL]: eXtensible Stylesheet Language
*[XSLT]: XSL Transformations
*[YAGNI]: You Ain't Gonna Need It 
*[YAML]: Yaml Ain't a Markup Language (originally, Yet Another Markup Language)
*[yml]: Yaml Ain't a Markup Language (3-character variation of YAML, often used as a file extension)
*[*nix]: Any operating systems that may be reasonably described as "Unix-like"—including macOS and all Linux variants