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CEO Tech Primer |
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List of terms that CEOs need to know when facing down a tech team. |
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This is a primer for the CEOs of the world who work with tech people and find the words they use confusing. If you are being told you need a full refactor, for a product that seems to be fine. This is the primer for you.
CDN just means content delivery network. It's a way to host images or files on the internet in a manner that allows a company to lower the cost for hosting, and speed up delivery. It comes down to this, an image faster (in a browser or app) because it has been pre-distributed across the world, and one of these servers containing the image, is right down the street from you.
The TLDR - faster load times for images that do not change much, like your company logo.
Vendor or Saas Product that replaces an entire block of work or code that would normally be build from scratch by a developer. For a Product Owner its means they can setup an deploy a solution to a customer with the assistance of a developer. For the developer, it means they work on other stuff.
Patterns that allow less code for a given application. For the CEO it means cheaper and faster. For the Product Owners, it means they can expect smaller tickets in their agile process and more velocity. For the developer, it means they have to use existing solution/pattern versus building it from scratch.
It just means 'build it all again' because someone on your team wants to.
This stands for Structure Query Language. Basically, its a language, like France or Spanish, that tells a database to return different types of data, depending upon the need.