Reference Library
Browse our collection of vocabulary terms and conceptual frameworks.
Vocabulary
401 terms • 154.2K+ wordsTerms and definitions used throughout our work.
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3D Graphics
Acceptance Testing
Acquisitions
Also known as: acquiring
Also known as: Advanced Spreadsheet
Also known as: Affinity Group
Agentic AI
Also known as: [AI Agents, AI Agent, Agent, Agents]
Agile
AI Hallucinations
Also known as: Hallucinations, Hallucination
Also known as: Models, AI Model, Model
AI Native Applications
Also known as: AI Native
All-in-One Platforms
Also known as: All-in-One Platform
AlphaFold
App Builders
Also known as: App Builder
Also known as: App Store
Application Programming Interface
Also known as: API, APIs
Atomic Design
Automated Code Analysis
Also known as: Back-End
Behavior-Driven Development
Also known as: BDD
Behavioral Economics
Also known as: Block-Element-Modifier
Also known as: Boilerplate
Brand Voice
Build Systems
Also known as: Build System
Also known as: CAG
Also known as: chain-of-thought, CoT
Also known as: CSR, Client-Side Rendering
Cloud Infrastructure
Cognitive Diversity
Also known as: Divergent Thinking
Color Management
Also known as: Open Platforms
Also known as: Command-Line Interface, CLI
Also known as: CLI, Command-Line Interface
Computer Architecture
Also known as: CGI
Also known as: Container
Content Delivery Networks
Also known as: Content Delivery Network, CDN, CDNs
Continuous Refactoring
Also known as: Refactoring, Continuous Rewrites
Copypasta
Corporate Venture Capital
Also known as: CVC
Creators
Critical Mass
CRM
Also known as: Customer Relationship Management
Also known as: Cross-Platform
CRUD
Customer Experience
Data Analysis
Data Flow Diagrams
Also known as: DFD
Data Ingestion
Data Labeling
Also known as: Data Annotation
Data Literacy
Data Model
Also known as: Data Modeling
Data Pipelines
Also known as: Data Pipeline
Data Science
Also known as: Data Standards
DataOps
Also known as: Data Operations, DataOps
Deep Fakes
Desalination Technology
Also known as: Design System
Desktop Application
Dev Ops
Also known as: DevOps, Developer Operations
Developer Community
Developer Tools
Also known as: Digital Asset Library
Also known as: DXP
Digital Transformation
Distributed Computing
Distributed Systems
Also known as: DDD
Edge Functions
Email Deliverability
Ephemeral Environments
Also known as: Ephemeral Environment
Ergonomics
Also known as: Extended Reality, Virtual Reality, VR, XR
Also known as: Extension Library, Plug-in Library
Also known as: [ELT]
Also known as: FGPA
Forked Repositories
Also known as: Forked Repo, Forked Repository
Frontmatter
Graphics Processing Units
Also known as: GPU Architecture, GPU, GPUs
Growth Hacking
Also known as: Hackathon
Hacker Culture
Holacracy
Also known as: ICL
Infrastructure as a Service
Also known as: IaaS
Also known as: ISA
Interactive Notebooks
Also known as: Interactive Notebook
Also known as: ICZN
Also known as: IoT
Also known as: Integration Platform as a Service
JAM Stack
Also known as: KVMs, KVM, Kernel-based Virtual Machine
Key Performance Indicators
Also known as: KPI, KPIs, Key Performance Indicator
Also known as: KAG
Knowledge Bases
Also known as: [Knowledge Base]
Also known as: LLM, LLMs, Large Language Model
Light-Based Computing
Also known as: LAN
Also known as: Local LLMs
Also known as: Local-First, Local-First Apps
Lock In
Also known as: lock-in, vendor lock-in
Locus of Control
Logging
Loosely Coupled Monolith
Markdown Editor
Also known as: Markdown Editors
Market Leaders
Market Standard
Also known as: Market Standard
Markup
Also known as: Markup Language, Markup Languages
Meta Prompting
Microfrontend Architecture
Also known as: Microfrontends, Microfrontend
Microservices
Also known as: Microservice Architecture, Microservice, Microservices Architecture, Microservices Architectures
Also known as: Mini-PCs
Also known as: Model Router, Model Routers
Module Federation
Also known as: Monolithic
Also known as: Monorepos
Also known as: Multi-Agent Systems, MAS
Multi-Modal Databases
Mythical Man Month
Natural Language Processing
Net Promoter Score
Also known as: NPS
Network Attached Storage Servers
Also known as: Network-Attached-Storage-Server
Object Storage
Object-Oriented Programming
Also known as: OOP
Object-Relational Mapper
Also known as: ORM
Also known as: Optical Character Recognition
Also known as: Walkthrough
One-Click Deployments
Packages and Libraries
Also known as: Package, Library, Packages, Libraries
Pair Programming
Also known as: Plex Server
Also known as: Plug-ins, Addons, Addon, Extensions, Extension, Plug-in
Primitive Data
Also known as: PCBs
Process Safety Management
Also known as: PSM Burden
Proxy Chains
Also known as: Read-Eval-Print Loop, REPL
Also known as: The Everything App
Reference Management System
Also known as: Reference Management, RMS, Reference Management Systems
Release Notes
Remote Patient Monitoring
Also known as: [Remote Monitoring]
Also known as: RPC
REST API
Also known as: REST APIs
Also known as: Retrieval-Augmented Generation, RAG
Robotic Process Automation
Also known as: RSN
Scalable Architecture
Scalable Vector Graphics
Also known as: SVG, SVGs, Scalable Vector Graphic
SCARP
Also known as: Software Development Kit
Search Engine Optimization
Also known as: SEO
Also known as: Self-Host, Self-Hostable
Semantic Caching
Semantic HTML
Also known as: SemVer
Separation of Concerns
Sequential Agents
Also known as: SSR
Serverless
Also known as: SSO
Also known as: SML, SMLs
Software Architecture
Software Architecture Diagrams
Also known as: Architecture Diagrams
Also known as: [SBOM]
Spaghetti Code
Spigot Pricing
Standards Organizations
Also known as: [Standards Organization]
State Management
Also known as: SSG, Static Site Generation, Static Site Generator
Subscription Economy
Telemetry Data
Also known as: MELT
Also known as: Parsing
Also known as: Text UI, Console User Interfaces, Console UI
Think Tanks
Also known as: Think Tank
Also known as: Ticket Manager
Tor Network
Also known as: UI Builder
UI Design
Also known as: UI Designers
Also known as: Universal Character Set, Unicode
User Experience
User Flow
Also known as: UI
User Research
Also known as: Vector Database
Venture Capital
Also known as: VC
VFX
Also known as: Visual Effects
Vibe Coding
Video Editing
Also known as: Video Editors
Video Generator
Also known as: Video Generators, Video Generation
Virtual Environments
Virtual Machines
Virtual Phone Systems
Also known as: VPS, Personal-Cloud
Also known as: VUI, VUIs, Voice User Interfaces
Wearables
Also known as: Wearable Devices, Wearable UI
Also known as: Accessibility
Web Browser
Also known as: Web Browsers, Browser, Browsers
Also known as: WebCams
Also known as: Web Scraper, Web Scrapers
Also known as: WSGI
Web Standards
Also known as: Web Standard
Web3
WebAssembly
Also known as: WASM
WebGPU
Workflow Automations
Also known as: Workflow Automation
Also known as: Project Management
Wrangling
Also known as: Data Wrangling
Zero Marginal Cost
Zettabyte File System
Also known as: ZFS, Zetta File System
Concepts
308 concepts • 155.5K+ wordsImportant ideas and frameworks we use in our work.