Name	Explanation
5G	The fifth generation of cellular technology. 5G increases transmission speed to roughly 1 Gbps from 4G's maximum of about 200 Mbps
Angular	Angular is a development platform, built on TypeScript.
AOT	Ahead Of Time. Compiles before (when building app). Not in bundle of the application
Apache CXF	Apache CXF provides the capability of conversion between WSDL and Java classes
AR	Augmented Reality. Involves overlaying digital information (like images, sounds, or data) onto the real world, enhancing one's current perception of reality, often via a device like a smartphone or smart glasses.
Azure	Microsoft Azure, formerly known as Windows Azure, is Microsoft's public cloud computing platform
Babel	Babel is a Javascript compiler that takes your modern JS code and returns browser compatible JS (older JS code)
Bcrypt	A widely used cryptographic algorithm that hashes passwords and incorporates a salt value to protect against brute force attacks and rainbow table attacks
Booting	The process of loading an operating system
Buffers	A feature for temporarily storing data
Checksum	Used for making sure that data and software you download hasn't been corrupted
CLI	Command Line Interface
cURL	Client URL. A computer software project providing a library (libcurl) and command-line tool (curl) for transferring data using various network protocols.
C++	Cross-playform language that can be used to create high-performance applications
Cypress	JavaScript-based front end testing tool built for the modern web
Dart	Programming language for client development
Device Driver	A program routine that links the operating system to a peripheral device
DNS	Domain Name System. Internet service to convert alphabetic names into IP addresses
Elasticsearch	A distributed, open-source search and analytics engine built on Apache Lucene and developed in Java.
Encryption	Converting readable data into unreadable data using mathematical algorithms, called a cipher.
FFmpeg	Fast Forward mpeg. Multimedia processing tool used to edit audio and video files programmatically. It can covert and transform over 100 different codecs and is integrated into many applications under the hood.
Flink	A distributed processing engine and a scalable data analytics framework. You can use Flink to process data streams at a large scale and to deliver real-time analytical insights about your processed data with your streaming application.
Go	Golang. Open source programming language used for general puppose. Developed by Google
GPG	GNU Privacy Guard. Tool for encrypting and signing data.
GPU	Graphics Processing Unit. A processing unit used for handling graphics on the computer screen
gRPC	Google Remote Procedure Calls. A high-performance, language-agnostic RPC framework that enables communication between distributed systems.
Hadoop	An open-source software framework used for distributed storage and processing of large datasets across clusters of computers using simple programming models.
HATEOAS	Hypermedia As The Engine Of Application State. A principle of the REST (Representational State Transfer) architectural style that allows for self-describing hypermedia-driven interaction with web services.
Hazelcast	Used for database caching. Hazelcast IMDG stores frequently accessed data in memory across an elastically scalable data grid
Hessian	Web service protocol makes web services usable without requiring a large framework
ICAP	Internet Content Adaption Protocol. HTTP like protocol used to extend transparent proxy-servers. Generally used to implemnet virus scanning and content filters in transparent HTTP proxy caches.
Jackson	Java based library to serialize or map java objects to JSON and vice versa
JBoss	Application server
JIB	Java tool for building Docker images of Java applications without writing a Dockerfile, no need to install docker
JIT	Just In Time. Compiler when running app. Compiler is in the bundle of the application
JDNI	Java Naming and Directory Interface. Can be used for associating a name with and object.
Jython	Java Python. Alternate deployment method for the Python, converting Python source code to Java bytecode.
JWT	JSON Web Token. For user authentication (Stateless), not stored on the server (compared to Sessions, that are stored on server). JWT therefore do not need to lookup a sessionID in a storage on the server, server only validates signature on the JWT
Kafka	Streaming system used for stream processing, real-time data pipelines, and data integration at scale
Karma	Test runner for JavaScript that rund on Node.js
Keras	Keras is a user-friendly deep learning library that simplifies the process of designing and training neural networks.
Kerberos	A network authentication protocol. Works on the basis of tickets to allow nodes communicating over a non-secure network to prove their identity to one another in a secure manner
KeyStore	Keystore stores your credential (server or client)
Laravel	Laravel attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching
Latency	Essentially any delay or lapse in time
LDAP	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. Searches a network for something that you do not know the location of. LDAP extracts information in a usable format from Active Directory, which contains attributes behind every user account on the network
LLM	Large Language Model. Uses gigantic amounts of human language to train a "neural network" to learn about a subject
Machine Learning	Subfield of artificial intelligence, which enables machines to learn from past data or experiences without being explicitly programmed
Magic Bytes	First bytes in a file which is used to recognize a file
MIME type	A MIME type or "media type" is a text string that identifies a specific file format. It consists of two parts — a type and a subtype — separated by a forward slash. For example, the MIME type of a plain text file is: text/plain
Miniconda	Miniconda is essentially an installer for an empty conda environment, containing only Conda, its dependencies, and Python
Neo4j	A highly scalable and robust graph database management system designed to handle large volumes of data with complex relationships and interconnectedness.
NGINX	A open source software for web serving, reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, media streaming, and more
OAuth	Used for Authorization. Allow a website or application to access resources hosted by other web apps on behalf of a user (using tokens)
Observable	Stream of data that you can subscribe to. Type of asynchronious data.
OIDC	OpenID Connect. Authentication protocol which allows to verify user identity when a user is trying to access a protected HTTPs endpoint
OpenSSL	OpenSSL is an open-source library providing cryptographic functionality, including SSL/TLS protocols, used for secure communication and data encryption.
Pandas	Pandas is a fast, powerful, flexible and easy to use open source data analysis and manipulation tool, built on top of the Python programming language
Physical Computing	Physical computing refers to the design and development of interactive systems that use software and hardware to sense and respond to the physical world.
PLC	Programmable Logic Controller. A programmable microprocessor-based device that is used in discrete manufacturing to control assembly lines and machinery on the shop floor as well as many other types of mechanical, electrical and electronic equipment in a plant.
Prometheus	Systems monitoring and alerting toolkit
Prompt Engineering	A person who specializes in developing, refining, and optimizing the prompts that are given to ChatGPT (or other LLMs), to ensure the outputs are as accurate, efficient, and useful as possible (i.e they ask the best questions to get the right outputs).
RabbitMQ	RabbitMQ is a messaging broker - an intermediary for messaging. It gives your applications a common platform to send and receive messages, and your messages a safe place to live until received.
RBAC	Role-based access control
Reactive programming	Programming with asynchronous data streams
Redis	In-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker
Rust	Low-level Programming language with direct access to hardware and memory
SAML	Security Assertion Markup Language. Passing information about users, logins, and attributes between the identity provider and service providers.
Selenium	A open source tool that automates web browsers for testing
Spark	Apache Spark is an open-source, distributed computing system used for big data processing and analytics.
SSH	Secure Shell. A network protocol that lets users securely access another computer
SSO	Single Sign On. Allows one set of login credentials to access multiple applications
Scala	Programming language that is running on JVM and used in Data processing, distributed computing, and web development.
Sessions	For user authentication (Stateful), stored on the server (compared to JWT, that are not stored on server).
SNMP	Simple Network Management Protocol. A network management protocol used for monitoring and managing devices on a network.
SOAP	Simple Object Access Protocol. XML-based messaging protocol to exchanging information among computers
Solr	Searching On Lucene w/ Replication. Search platform written in Java. Its major features include full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, real-time indexing, dynamic clustering, database integration, NoSQL features and rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling.
Travis CI	Continious integration service used to build and test software projects hosted on GitHub and Bitbucket
Truststore	Stores certificates from Certified Authorities (CA)
TSLint	Static analysis tool that checks typescript code
TypeScript	Language developed and maintained by Microsoft, it is a strict syntactical superset of JavaScript and adds optional static typing to the language
Vue	JavaScript framework for building user interfaces, build on top of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
VR	Virtual Reality. Fully immersive digital experience where a user interacts with a computer-generated reality, usually via a headset that blocks out the real-world environment.
WebFlux	Reactive programming used in Spring
Webpack	Module bundler. Generate large file(s) from a lot of smaller files. Improve efficiency and load time
WebSockets	Communication protocol. A protocol for bi-directional real-time communication between client and a server
Windows Registry	Stores much of the information and settings for software programs, hardware devices, user preferences, and operating-system configurations
XR	Extended Reality. This is an umbrella term that encompasses all real-and-virtual combined environments and human-machine interactions, including VR, AR, and Mixed Reality (MR, which combines elements of both VR and AR).
Yeoman	Uses many different tools and interfaces coordinated for optimized project generation, called scaffolding (quickly set up skeleton for an app)
Zuul	Edge service that proxies requests to multiple backing services