An open-source automation server written in Java, Jenkins provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying, and automating any project.
"Jenkins is widely used in continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines to automate the process of building, testing, and deploying code."
A stack-based, procedural programming language and programming environment.
"Forth is known for its portability, compact syntax, and its ability to directly control hardware."
A humorous term used in software development to describe the situation where a series of seemingly unrelated tasks or activities must be completed in order to accomplish a primary goal or objective, often leading to distraction, frustration, and inefficiency.
"Instead of fixing the bug, he found himself yak shaving—debugging the build system, updating dependencies, and refactoring unrelated code."
A type conversion in object-oriented programming where an object of a subclass is treated as an object of its superclass, often used implicitly in polymorphic code to enable abstraction and dynamic behavior.
"Upcasting allows treating a derived class object as a base class object in C++."
An architectural style that structures an application as a collection of loosely coupled services, which implement business capabilities.
"Microservices allow for the development of large, complex applications as a suite of small services that can be developed, deployed, and scaled independently."