Maggie Hunt#TechForNewbies: Tech DebtTechnical Debt is a catchphrase often thrown around, essentially as a bit of a catchall for a few things you will one day need to resolve.Apr 11, 2024Apr 11, 2024
Maggie Hunt#TechForNewbies: ‘Infrastructure’ and ‘Architecture’You will often hear these terms used to describe the technical landscape of something you are working on.Feb 27, 2024Feb 27, 2024
Maggie Hunt#TechForNewbies: What does ‘serverless’ mean?Serverless, put simply, means there is no ‘server’. JK, that’s not quite the case. It just feels that way.Feb 20, 2024Feb 20, 2024
Maggie Hunt#TechForNewbies: What is Metadata?Have you ever heard someone say ‘that’s so meta?’ — meaning ‘that thing is a version pertaining to a version of itself?’Feb 16, 20241Feb 16, 20241
Maggie Hunt#TechForNewbies: NLPNatural language processing (NLP) is a type of AI, where the AI understands and processes ‘natural’ (or ‘human’) language.Feb 5, 2024Feb 5, 2024
Maggie Hunt#TechForNewbies: Scaling Horizontally vs. VerticallyHow do you remember which is which?Dec 27, 2023Dec 27, 2023
Maggie Hunt#TechForNewbies: Exceptions vs. ErrorsExceptiosn and errors appear when you’re testing and deploying your code when something goes wrong — but what’s the difference?Dec 22, 2023Dec 22, 2023
Maggie Hunt#TechForNewbies: Client vs. ServerClient and Server are terms you will hear ALL the time in your technical career — but what do they actually mean?Oct 2, 2023Oct 2, 2023
Maggie Hunt#TechForNewbies: HTTP RequestsOne of the most common ways to retrieve, contact, or change data external to your application is via an HTTP request.Sep 29, 2023Sep 29, 2023
Maggie Hunt#TechForNewbies: Relational Databases vs. Non-Relational DatabasesThere are two subcategories of database: relational databases and non-relational databases. But, how are they different?Sep 27, 20231Sep 27, 20231
Maggie Hunt#TechForNewbies: StatelessIf something is ‘stateless’, what does that mean?Aug 16, 20231Aug 16, 20231
Maggie Hunt#TechForNewbies: Deployment‘Deploy those changes’, ‘deploy that version’ — but what does ‘deploy’ even mean in this context?Jul 28, 2023Jul 28, 2023
Maggie Hunt#TechForNewbies: What is a VM?Virtual Machines and their benefits.Jul 20, 2023Jul 20, 2023
Maggie Hunt#TechForNewbies: Software Dependencies‘Dependencies’ is a term you’ll hear thrown around a lot in programming — and they are what they say on the tin.Jun 13, 2023Jun 13, 2023
Maggie Hunt#TechForNewbies: What is ‘compute’?Compute power refers to the resources uses to run a process.Apr 17, 2023Apr 17, 2023
Maggie Hunt#TechForNewbies: Authentication vs. AuthorisationWhat is the difference between authentication and authorisation?Apr 13, 2023Apr 13, 2023
Maggie Hunt#TechForNewbies: Compiled vs. InterpretedAll code has to be translated from what you type into what the computer can understand.Mar 17, 2023Mar 17, 2023
Maggie Hunt#TechForNewbies: What is caching?The term comes from the French word ‘cacher’ — to hide (hide and seek = ‘cache-cache’).Feb 13, 2023Feb 13, 2023
Maggie Hunt#TechForNewbies: Open BankingOpen banking is one of the most revolutionary pieces of tech from the past decade.Jan 17, 2023Jan 17, 2023
Maggie Hunt#TechForNewbies: What is MFA?One of the easiest ways to protect what you do online, MFA stands for Multi-Factor Authentication.Dec 30, 2022Dec 30, 2022
