Glossary: Letter A

A TypeScript-based open-source web application framework developed by Google. Angular provides a comprehensive platform for building single-page applications with features like two-way data binding, d...

An AI technique that identifies patterns in data that deviate significantly from expected behavior. Anomaly detection is used in fraud prevention, cybersecurity, predictive maintenance, and quality co...

An open-source automation tool for configuration management, application deployment, and task automation. Ansible uses YAML-based playbooks and operates over SSH without requiring agents on managed no...

YAML files defining automation tasks for Ansible, an IT automation tool for configuration management, application deployment, and orchestration.

A directory-level configuration file for Apache HTTP Server. It allows per-directory overrides of server configuration including URL rewriting, authentication, and access control.

An open-source, cross-platform web server developed by the Apache Software Foundation. It is one of the oldest and most widely used web servers, known for its flexibility through modules (.htaccess, m...

An open table format for large analytic datasets, supporting schema evolution, hidden partitioning, and time travel on data lakes.

A declarative GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. ArgoCD automatically synchronizes the desired application state defined in a Git repository with the live state in a Kubernetes cluster, p...

Apache Arrow IPC format (formerly Feather): a columnar in-memory data format for efficient analytics and zero-copy data exchange between Python, R, and Java.

The simulation of human intelligence processes by computer systems, including learning, reasoning, and self-correction. AI encompasses a broad range of techniques from rule-based systems to deep neura...

A lightweight markup language for writing technical documentation. More powerful than Markdown with native support for tables, admonitions, and includes.

Source code file for assembly language, a low-level programming language with a strong correspondence to machine code. Each assembly language is specific to a processor architecture.

A modern web framework that renders pages as static HTML by default and only hydrates interactive components on the client when needed. Astro supports multiple UI frameworks (React, Vue, Svelte) in th...

The total number of points (attack vectors) where an unauthorized user can try to enter or extract data from a system. Reducing the attack surface involves disabling unnecessary services, closing unus...

A technique in neural networks that allows the model to focus on relevant parts of the input when producing output. Self-attention enables each element in a sequence to attend to all other elements, c...

A cloud computing feature that automatically adjusts the number of compute resources (instances, containers, functions) based on demand. Auto scaling ensures applications maintain performance during t...

A type of neural network that learns to compress input data into a compact latent representation and then reconstruct it. Autoencoders are used for dimensionality reduction, denoising, anomaly detecti...

A vehicle capable of sensing its environment and navigating without human input, using a combination of AI technologies including computer vision, sensor fusion, path planning, and deep learning for r...

Apache Avro: a row-oriented data serialization framework using JSON for schema definitions and binary format for data. Widely used in Apache Kafka and Hadoop ecosystems.

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform offering a broad range of services including virtual machines, app services, AI, databases, and DevOps tools. It integrates tightly with Microsoft's enter...