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What exactly is a [Software] Framework? In our quest to take down popular tech buzzwords, we’re going to tackle Software Frameworks. Definition A program that allows you to hook into itself to extend it. That’s the one liner, but lets take it apart through an example that is your operating system. A running operating system is a process that provides a framework for running other processes. Each process can spawn child processes, which leads to a tree/heirarchy of processes that we can view through a command like htop....

Definition The subdomain of Software Engineering focused on deploying software quickly. Simple as that. Strangely, even though DevOps is a major buzzword in tech, many online struggle to provide a useful definition for DevOps. Take a look at Microsoft’s definition: “DevOps is the union of people, process, and technology to continually provide value to customers” That is not a precise enough definition to be useful. There are so many things that definition applies to, a lot of them totally unrelated to tech (think about it: Even a financial consulting company would fall under such a definition)....

The Algorithm Breadth first traversal (usually interchanged with breadth first search), is a graph traversal algorithm that works in a level order manner. Our graph is defined as G={V,E}, where V is a set of vertices and E is a set of edges. In more intuitive words: you start from some point on a graph and expand outward one level at a time. The first level is simply one node, and the next levels are simply all the nodes near a node in the previous level (see the colorful graph on the cover of this post)....