Buzzwords demistyfied
Posted on 3rd January 2017 in Uncategorized by Andy
Serverless: it’s what the guys who want to sell you cycles are peddling vs. what the guys who want to sell you the tin to run those cycles on
Microservices: how we used to build distributed systems before Moores law made it possible to colocate everything in one image
DevOps: it’s what the new kids on the block do….until they get to twenty five employees and then they don’t quite know what to do except NOT to do ITIL
Agile: it’s the methodology for guys who don’t want to commit anything to writing, in either a document or calendar form
API: intelligent glue unlike SOA which was academically superior but incomprehensible to anyone but an academic
Stateless: something that is technically useless in any meaningful application
App: code that is too trivial to be used in any backend
Experiment: in applied computing this is often used to disguise something that is not well thought out or suitable for the intended purpose