Even if you’re not a programmer.

Programming isn’t easy. What more if you are presented with jargon you must always know when you’re dealing with programmers?

Based on experience, it’s not always easy to explain how technology works that everyone can understand. So I put together the most important technical terms you’ll definitely hear when working, dealing with, or just conversing with a programmer.

API

An Application Programming Interface is a connection between 2 applications. First, they allow you to use an application developed by a third party on your system. This is, for example, the case of the google map that you can put on your site. This saves a tremendous amount of time by using expert technology instead of developing it yourself.

Backup

Backup is simply a backup. This is essential in the web environment because every change can have a huge impact on an application. Therefore, it is important to make a backup beforehand to have a previous stable version of the application in stock.

Captcha

A Captcha is an automated process that differentiates a human from a computer to avoid spam. You have surely already filled some. It’s these little tests that ask you to click on the right photos, to do a puzzle, or to rewrite a character sequence of an image. It is more or less efficient depending on the system because even if AI evolves very quickly nowadays, it still has great difficulty reading an image.

Cache

The cache is data that is temporarily stored on your computer when you browse a website. The objective is to save you time when you return to a site or quite simply when you navigate between the pages of the same site because you will have already loaded some of its data in advance.

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