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| 2 | +layout: layouts/base.njk |
| 3 | +lang: en |
| 4 | +title: "Technology Glossary" |
| 5 | +permalink: /en/glossary/ |
| 6 | +--- |
| 7 | + |
| 8 | +<!-- Hero --> |
| 9 | +<section class="hero"> |
| 10 | + <h1>Technology Glossary</h1> |
| 11 | + <p class="subtitle">Every technology mentioned in the Chronicles</p> |
| 12 | +</section> |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | +<section> |
| 15 | + <div class="narrative"> |
| 16 | + <p> |
| 17 | + This glossary lists all the tools and technologies you will encounter throughout |
| 18 | + your learning journey, as well as those powering this site. Each entry links |
| 19 | + to the official documentation. |
| 20 | + </p> |
| 21 | + </div> |
| 22 | +</section> |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | +<!-- ============================================================ |
| 25 | + Section 1: Technologies taught in the course |
| 26 | + ============================================================ --> |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | +<section> |
| 29 | + <h2 class="codex-section-title">Technologies taught in the course</h2> |
| 30 | + |
| 31 | + <h3>Version control</h3> |
| 32 | + <table class="glossary-table"> |
| 33 | + <thead><tr><th>Name</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead> |
| 34 | + <tbody> |
| 35 | + <tr><td><a href="https://git-scm.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Git</a></td><td>Distributed version control system, at the heart of every quest</td></tr> |
| 36 | + <tr><td><a href="https://git-scm.com/docs/git-lfs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Git LFS</a></td><td>Git extension for managing large files (binaries, assets)</td></tr> |
| 37 | + <tr><td><a href="https://semver.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Semantic Versioning</a></td><td>Version naming convention (MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH)</td></tr> |
| 38 | + </tbody> |
| 39 | + </table> |
| 40 | + |
| 41 | + <h3>Platforms and forges</h3> |
| 42 | + <table class="glossary-table"> |
| 43 | + <thead><tr><th>Name</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead> |
| 44 | + <tbody> |
| 45 | + <tr><td><a href="https://github.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GitHub</a></td><td>Most popular Git hosting platform</td></tr> |
| 46 | + <tr><td><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GitLab</a></td><td>Complete DevOps platform, self-hostable</td></tr> |
| 47 | + <tr><td><a href="https://bitbucket.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bitbucket</a></td><td>Atlassian's Git forge</td></tr> |
| 48 | + <tr><td><a href="https://forgejo.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Forgejo</a></td><td>Lightweight, open source, self-hostable Git forge</td></tr> |
| 49 | + <tr><td><a href="https://gitea.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gitea</a></td><td>Lightweight Git forge written in Go</td></tr> |
| 50 | + <tr><td><a href="https://radicle.xyz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Radicle</a></td><td>Peer-to-peer, decentralized and sovereign Git forge</td></tr> |
| 51 | + </tbody> |
| 52 | + </table> |
| 53 | + |
| 54 | + <h3>CI/CD and automation</h3> |
| 55 | + <table class="glossary-table"> |
| 56 | + <thead><tr><th>Name</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead> |
| 57 | + <tbody> |
| 58 | + <tr><td><a href="https://docs.github.com/en/actions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GitHub Actions</a></td><td>CI/CD system integrated into GitHub (YAML workflows)</td></tr> |
| 59 | + <tr><td><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ci/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GitLab CI</a></td><td>CI/CD pipeline integrated into GitLab</td></tr> |
| 60 | + <tr><td><a href="https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/get-started-with-bitbucket-pipelines/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bitbucket Pipelines</a></td><td>CI/CD integrated into Bitbucket</td></tr> |
| 61 | + <tr><td><a href="https://www.jenkins.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jenkins</a></td><td>Historical open source automation server</td></tr> |
| 62 | + </tbody> |
| 63 | + </table> |
| 64 | + |
| 65 | + <h3>Infrastructure and deployment</h3> |
| 66 | + <table class="glossary-table"> |
| 67 | + <thead><tr><th>Name</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead> |
| 68 | + <tbody> |
| 69 | + <tr><td><a href="https://www.docker.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Docker</a></td><td>Application containerization platform</td></tr> |
| 70 | + <tr><td><a href="https://kubernetes.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kubernetes</a></td><td>Container orchestrator for large-scale deployment</td></tr> |
| 71 | + <tr><td><a href="https://www.terraform.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Terraform</a></td><td>Multi-cloud Infrastructure as Code (IaC)</td></tr> |
| 72 | + <tr><td><a href="https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ArgoCD</a></td><td>GitOps continuous deployment tool for Kubernetes</td></tr> |
| 73 | + <tr><td><a href="https://fluxcd.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Flux</a></td><td>GitOps tool for Kubernetes synchronization</td></tr> |
| 74 | + <tr><td><a href="https://kustomize.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kustomize</a></td><td>Kubernetes configuration management without templates</td></tr> |
| 75 | + <tr><td><a href="https://pages.github.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GitHub Pages</a></td><td>Free static site hosting from a GitHub repository</td></tr> |
| 76 | + </tbody> |
| 77 | + </table> |
| 78 | + |
| 79 | + <h3>Monorepos and build</h3> |
| 80 | + <table class="glossary-table"> |
| 81 | + <thead><tr><th>Name</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead> |
| 82 | + <tbody> |
| 83 | + <tr><td><a href="https://nx.dev/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nx</a></td><td>Smart build system for JavaScript/TypeScript monorepos</td></tr> |
| 84 | + <tr><td><a href="https://turbo.build/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Turborepo</a></td><td>High-performance build system for JS monorepos</td></tr> |
| 85 | + <tr><td><a href="https://bazel.build/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bazel</a></td><td>Google's multi-language build system</td></tr> |
| 86 | + </tbody> |
| 87 | + </table> |
| 88 | + |
| 89 | + <h3>Data Science and Machine Learning</h3> |
| 90 | + <table class="glossary-table"> |
| 91 | + <thead><tr><th>Name</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead> |
| 92 | + <tbody> |
| 93 | + <tr><td><a href="https://jupyter.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jupyter</a></td><td>Interactive notebooks for scientific computing</td></tr> |
| 94 | + <tr><td><a href="https://dvc.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DVC</a></td><td>Data Version Control - data and ML pipeline versioning</td></tr> |
| 95 | + <tr><td><a href="https://onnx.ai/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ONNX</a></td><td>Open format for machine learning model exchange</td></tr> |
| 96 | + <tr><td><a href="https://jupytext.readthedocs.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jupytext</a></td><td>Sync Jupyter notebooks with plain text files</td></tr> |
| 97 | + <tr><td><a href="https://github.com/kynan/nbstripout" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nbstripout</a></td><td>Git filter to strip notebook outputs</td></tr> |
| 98 | + </tbody> |
| 99 | + </table> |
| 100 | + |
| 101 | + <h3>Hardware and electronics</h3> |
| 102 | + <table class="glossary-table"> |
| 103 | + <thead><tr><th>Name</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead> |
| 104 | + <tbody> |
| 105 | + <tr><td><a href="https://www.kicad.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KiCad</a></td><td>Open source electronic design suite (schematics, PCB)</td></tr> |
| 106 | + <tr><td><a href="https://github.com/Gasman2014/KiCad-Diff" target="_blank" rel="noopener">kidiff</a></td><td>Visual diff tool for KiCad schematics</td></tr> |
| 107 | + <tr><td><a href="https://github.com/leandrosq/plotgitsch" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plotgitsch</a></td><td>Schematic change visualization in Git</td></tr> |
| 108 | + </tbody> |
| 109 | + </table> |
| 110 | + |
| 111 | + <h3>Design and creation</h3> |
| 112 | + <table class="glossary-table"> |
| 113 | + <thead><tr><th>Name</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead> |
| 114 | + <tbody> |
| 115 | + <tr><td><a href="https://www.figma.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Figma</a></td><td>Collaborative online design tool</td></tr> |
| 116 | + <tr><td><a href="https://www.abstract.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abstract</a></td><td>Version control for design files</td></tr> |
| 117 | + </tbody> |
| 118 | + </table> |
| 119 | + |
| 120 | + <h3>Security and authentication</h3> |
| 121 | + <table class="glossary-table"> |
| 122 | + <thead><tr><th>Name</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead> |
| 123 | + <tbody> |
| 124 | + <tr><td><a href="https://www.openssh.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SSH</a></td><td>Secure protocol for authentication and transfer</td></tr> |
| 125 | + <tr><td><a href="https://gnupg.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GPG</a></td><td>Cryptographic encryption and commit signing</td></tr> |
| 126 | + </tbody> |
| 127 | + </table> |
| 128 | +</section> |
| 129 | + |
| 130 | +<div class="fancy-separator"></div> |
| 131 | + |
| 132 | +<!-- ============================================================ |
| 133 | + Section 2: Technologies powering this site |
| 134 | + ============================================================ --> |
| 135 | + |
| 136 | +<section> |
| 137 | + <h2 class="codex-section-title">Technologies powering this site</h2> |
| 138 | + |
| 139 | + <div class="narrative"> |
| 140 | + <p> |
| 141 | + This site is itself an open source project. Here is the tech stack that makes it run. |
| 142 | + </p> |
| 143 | + </div> |
| 144 | + |
| 145 | + <h3>Generation and templates</h3> |
| 146 | + <table class="glossary-table"> |
| 147 | + <thead><tr><th>Name</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead> |
| 148 | + <tbody> |
| 149 | + <tr><td><a href="https://www.11ty.dev/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eleventy (11ty)</a></td><td>Simple and fast static site generator (v3)</td></tr> |
| 150 | + <tr><td><a href="https://mozilla.github.io/nunjucks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nunjucks</a></td><td>Template engine used for all pages (.njk)</td></tr> |
| 151 | + </tbody> |
| 152 | + </table> |
| 153 | + |
| 154 | + <h3>Search</h3> |
| 155 | + <table class="glossary-table"> |
| 156 | + <thead><tr><th>Name</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead> |
| 157 | + <tbody> |
| 158 | + <tr><td><a href="https://pagefind.app/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pagefind</a></td><td>Client-side static search engine, bilingual</td></tr> |
| 159 | + </tbody> |
| 160 | + </table> |
| 161 | + |
| 162 | + <h3>Build and optimization</h3> |
| 163 | + <table class="glossary-table"> |
| 164 | + <thead><tr><th>Name</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead> |
| 165 | + <tbody> |
| 166 | + <tr><td><a href="https://esbuild.github.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">esbuild</a></td><td>Ultra-fast JavaScript bundler, used for CSS/JS minification</td></tr> |
| 167 | + <tr><td><a href="https://github.com/terser/html-minifier-terser" target="_blank" rel="noopener">html-minifier-terser</a></td><td>HTML minification in production</td></tr> |
| 168 | + </tbody> |
| 169 | + </table> |
| 170 | + |
| 171 | + <h3>Code quality</h3> |
| 172 | + <table class="glossary-table"> |
| 173 | + <thead><tr><th>Name</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead> |
| 174 | + <tbody> |
| 175 | + <tr><td><a href="https://cspell.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cspell</a></td><td>Spell checker for code and content (FR/EN)</td></tr> |
| 176 | + <tr><td><a href="https://typicode.github.io/husky/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Husky</a></td><td>Git hooks manager (pre-commit)</td></tr> |
| 177 | + </tbody> |
| 178 | + </table> |
| 179 | + |
| 180 | + <h3>Hosting and CI/CD</h3> |
| 181 | + <table class="glossary-table"> |
| 182 | + <thead><tr><th>Name</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead> |
| 183 | + <tbody> |
| 184 | + <tr><td><a href="https://pages.github.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GitHub Pages</a></td><td>Production hosting for this site</td></tr> |
| 185 | + <tr><td><a href="https://docs.github.com/en/actions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GitHub Actions</a></td><td>Automated build, tests and deployment on every push</td></tr> |
| 186 | + <tr><td><a href="https://lychee.cli.rs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lychee</a></td><td>Dead link checker for the site</td></tr> |
| 187 | + </tbody> |
| 188 | + </table> |
| 189 | +</section> |
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