Bridging between Aspiration and Delivery
Short non technical explanations of technical buzzwords
It is nothing more than a harmless mathematical algorithm that converts your information into unintelligible rubbish to the extent that that it is pretty much impossible to retrieve and read it without the Public key. Blowfish, AES RC4, RC5, and RC6 are examples of encryption algorithms. By giving someone the Public key they can achieve … Read more
Cryptography achieves two basic things for us: 1. We can lock a document (with our private key) so that only we or someone to whom we gave a key (a Public key) is able to open and read it. But not change it or create new documents. 2. If we have been given a key … Read more
There are many views about the different roles in architecture. Many of these views can appear quite political but the clearest steer you can get in my view is to consider Technical architecture to be only concerned with defining infrastructure or code that will meet a specific set of operating criteria. It is equally helpful … Read more
Solution Architecture is concerned with how the systems go together to solve specific problems for the user and hence for the business. E.G The business has a problem with abandoned carts costing them huge revenue. Business analysts have uncovered the problem and designed a process solution to the problem possibly in the form of an … Read more
Enterprise Architecture (EA) describes a framework or discipline whereby somebody or some group within an enterprise carefully designs the Technical Architecture and Solution Architecture around the business strategy, plans and needs of the Enterprise to effectively achieve it’s objectives. The alternative and by far the most common scenario if for organisations to make isolated decisions … Read more
This means exactly the same thing as Application and we also talked about it meaning much the same as App and web app. As best I can remember the name began to be used around the time Microsoft introduced Visual studio. Of course we all know what happened to the hapless word after that. “The … Read more
This is a Web page that looks and acts like a mobile app on a smartphone or tablet. Web apps provide viewers with a the same experience as using mobile. They are almost equivalent today but still fall a little behind native Apps in terms of access to the underlying phone’s data and services. The … Read more
The stack describes the way the many components are layered in a large system or solution, though it is more common nowadays to think of stacks as particular combinations of components. E.G the LAMP stack stands for Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP and it is a very popular combination of components on which to develop PHP … Read more
A system is short for computer system and in reality it can be said that a system is more less the same as a Solution, App and web app. Every App and solution is in one way or other a computer system and apart form staying in the context of a specific conversation there really is no … Read more
Virtual private network A VPN allows users to connect to a private network from anywhere through a secured tunnel. E.G working from home, you might set up a VPN to your office so that your traffic can not be snooped on and secrets stolen. VPNs can also be used to link together two networks such … Read more
The cloud is most definitely a buzzword and as such there is no widely accepted definition of that it actually is. One fact is certain, whatever you are selling from blueberry pie to cleaning fluids, if you can describe it as cloud you will get more airtime. Ever since I stumbled on Arpanet, I dreamed of … Read more
“App” used to simply be short for Application. The systems or programs we run our computers. Gradually in the course of the late nineties the Application became the Solution and the new applications designed to run natively on mobile phones like iPhones and Androids became nicknamed “Apps”. When the battle between desktop and smartphone began … Read more
Neural networks are modelled on the way the brain is believed to process data. It consists of a net of nodes joined by links. Without getting too deep i technical jargon, the Neural net has similarities to a good old fashioned Ontology where key terms are linked by a relationship to make a huge net … Read more
Deep learning is first of all a buzzword. That means it may not have a precise and widely accepted meaning. It is a form or use of artificial intelligence as is machine learning from which deep learning evolved. OK we started with out with simple stuff like Data mining this became more sophisticated a section … Read more
Data mining is a buzzword. What it describes is really a form of Machine learning and there is no definitive border between one of these many overlapping disciplines and another, so the takeaway is not to get too worried about it and ignore anyone who does unless they are your boss or paying very well. … Read more