Word Jargon - lydia-wu/cadence GitHub Wiki

Alloway, Hunter; Last Edited: 2021-08-30

Elements of a Successful Open-Source: Jargon Github Glossary

Serialization/Deserialization: The state of one object, be it code, documentation, analytics, etc. and translating this data into a format that can be stored/updated for a future modification

Repository: Central location where data is collected, stored and manipulated

Dependency: Project, software code, task, criteria relying on another aspect of the project before it is capable of being modified

Commit: A commit is a change or modification made to a file. Similar to Microsoft Word’s edit suggestion, team members involved in a project who make changes will leave a “hash” which is essentially a tag, letting other users know who made the change.

Public Repository: Accessible to anyone in the world willing to use developed code on Github

Private Repository: Only accessible to team members and others added to join the repository

Stack: Layered system applied to software using a fixed number of outputs. It is a structured method to organize conceptual elements into a LIFO (last in first out) that influence push and pull operations. Push = adding an element to the stack and a pull takes data from the first position

Windows Event Log: Record of notifications sent to a Windows operating system used for variance diagnosis and future problems.

Data Shipper: The item that ships information “the beat", sends information in the form of a log file to Elasticsearch or Logstash to perform whatever operation is requested.