Practical Guide

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)....