Glossary

Amazon Web Services: a comprehensive cloud computing platform by Amazon offering over 200 services including compute (EC2), storage (S3), databases (RDS), networking, machine learning, and serverless...

Amazon Kindle Format 8: the e-book format used by modern Kindle devices, supporting HTML5, CSS3, and advanced formatting features beyond MOBI.

The practice of designing and developing websites and web applications that can be used by people with disabilities. Accessibility involves following standards like WCAG to ensure content is perceivab...

A mathematical function applied to a neuron's output in a neural network that introduces non-linearity, enabling the network to learn complex patterns. Common activation functions include ReLU, sigmoi...

Source code for Ada, a structured, statically typed language designed for safety-critical systems in aerospace, defense, and transportation.

An AI design pattern where a language model autonomously plans, executes, and iterates on multi-step tasks using tools, memory, and reasoning. Agentic workflows combine planning, action execution, obs...

An open interchange framework for baked geometric data (animations, simulations). Standard in VFX pipelines for passing cached data between applications.

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...