🚀 Dev Slang 101: Part 3 – Essential Terms for New Developers 💻

Here's the 3rd part of your developer slang journey! This list includes even more terms that will level up your understanding and communication in the dev world. Let’s dive in:

1. Commit message 📝 - A short description explaining the changes made in the code
2. Branch 🌿 - A separate version of the code for development or feature changes
3. Fork 🍴 - Creating a copy of a repository to make independent changes
4. Hotfix 🔥 - A quick, urgent fix for a critical bug or issue
5. Dependency 🔗 - External libraries or tools your code relies on
6. Monorepo 📂 - A single repository containing multiple projects
7. FOMO 🤯 - Fear of missing out; often used when a developer is concerned they missed important updates or changes
8. RESTful API 🌐 - A type of API that follows REST (Representational State Transfer) principles
9. OAuth 🔑 - An open standard for authentication and authorization
10. JWT 🛂 - JSON Web Token; used for securely transmitting information
11. CRUD 📝 - Create, Read, Update, Delete; basic operations in databases
12. JSON 🧑‍💻 - JavaScript Object Notation; a lightweight data format often used in APIs
13. YAML 📃 - Yet Another Markup Language; human-readable data serialization
14. CI/CD pipeline ⛓️ - A process of automating integration, testing, and deployment of code changes
15. Load testing ⚡ - Testing how a system performs under heavy traffic
16. Webhooks 📲 - Automated messages sent from one app to another when a specific event occurs
17. Push notification 📱 - A message sent to a user’s device or browser from an app or website
18. Docker Compose 🐋 - A tool to define and run multi-container Docker applications
19. Dev environment 🖥️ - The setup where developers write and test their code
20. Prod environment 🚀 - The live environment where users interact with your app
21. Bloatware 💨 - Software that has unnecessary features or takes up too many resources
22. Refactor 🔄 - Rewriting and improving code without changing its functionality
23. Staging environment 🌱 - A testing environment that mimics production to test changes before deployment
24. Lambda function 🧑‍💻 - A small, serverless function that performs a specific task in cloud computing
25. Continuous testing 🔄 - Testing code continuously as it changes in the development process
26. Webhook 📲 - Allows apps to send real-time data to other apps using HTTP POST
27. Web scraping 🌐 - Extracting data from websites
28. Deep learning 🧠 - A subset of AI using neural networks to model complex patterns
29. Latency ⏳ - The delay between sending a request and receiving a response
30. Cache 🧳 - Storing frequently accessed data to speed up processes

These terms will make you feel more comfortable speaking the dev language. Keep learning and growing your skills! 💪