The Lossless Group

Reference Library

Browse our collection of vocabulary terms and conceptual frameworks.

Vocabulary

391 terms • 117.1K+ words

Terms and definitions used throughout our work.

Acquisitions

Also known as: acquiring

Advanced Spreadsheets

Also known as: Advanced Spreadsheet

Affinity Network

Also known as: Affinity Group

Agentic AI

Also known as: AI Agents, AI Agent, Agent, Agents

AI Hallucinations

Also known as: Hallucinations, Hallucination

AI Models

Also known as: Models, AI Model, Model

AI Native Applications

Also known as: AI Native

All-in-One Platforms

Also known as: All-in-One Platform

App Builders

Also known as: App Builder

App Stores

Also known as: App Store

Application Programming Interface

Also known as: API, APIs

Back-End Engineering

Also known as: Back-End

BEM

Also known as: Block-Element-Modifier

Boilerplate Code

Also known as: Boilerplate

Build Systems

Also known as: Build System

Cache Augmented Generation

Also known as: CAG

Chain of Thought

Also known as: chain-of-thought, CoT

Client-Side Rendered

Also known as: CSR, Client-Side Rendering

Cognitive Diversity

Also known as: Divergent Thinking

Come one, come all

Also known as: Open Platforms

Command-Line Interface

Also known as: Command-Line Interface, CLI

Command-Line Interfaces

Also known as: CLI, Command-Line Interface

Computer-Generated Imagery

Also known as: CGI

Containers

Also known as: Container

Continuous Refactoring

Also known as: Refactoring, Continuous Rewrites

Corporate Venture Capital

Also known as: CVC

CRM

Also known as: Customer Relationship Management

Cross-Platform Applications

Also known as: Cross-Platform

Data Flow Diagrams

Also known as: DFD

Data Model

Also known as: Data Modeling

Data Pipelines

Also known as: Data Pipeline

Data Standard

Also known as: Data Standards

DataOps

Also known as: Data Operations, DataOps

Design Systems

Also known as: Design System

Dev Ops

Also known as: DevOps, Developer Operations

Digital Asset Libraries

Also known as: Digital Asset Library

Digital Experience

Also known as: DXP

Domain-Driven Design

Also known as: DDD

Ephemeral Environments

Also known as: Ephemeral Environment

Extended Reality

Also known as: Extended Reality, Virtual Reality, VR, XR

Extension Libraries

Also known as: Extension Library, Plug-in Library

Extract-Load-Transform

Also known as: [ELT]

Forked Repositories

Also known as: Forked Repo, Forked Repository

Graphics Processing Units

Also known as: GPU Architecture, GPU, GPUs

Hackathons

Also known as: Hackathon

In Context Learning

Also known as: ICL

Infrastructure as a Service

Also known as: IaaS

Interactive Notebooks

Also known as: Interactive Notebook

Internet of Things

Also known as: IoT

iPaaS

Also known as: Integration Platform as a Service

Kernel-based Virtual Machines

Also known as: KVMs, KVM, Kernel-based Virtual Machine

Key Performance Indicators

Also known as: KPI, KPIs, Key Performance Indicator

Large Language Models

Also known as: LLM, LLMs, Large Language Model

Local Area Network

Also known as: LAN

Local LLM

Also known as: Local LLMs

Local-First Applications

Also known as: Local-First, Local-First Apps

Markdown Editor

Also known as: Markdown Editors

Market Standard

Also known as: Market Standard

Markup

Also known as: Markup Language, Markup Languages

Microfrontend Architecture

Also known as: Microfrontends, Microfrontend

Microservices

Also known as: Microservice Architecture, Microservice, Microservices Architecture

Mini Desktops

Also known as: Mini-PCs

Model Routing

Also known as: Model Router, Model Routers

Monorepo

Also known as: Monorepos

Multi-Agent Automation

Also known as: Multi-Agent Systems, MAS

Net Promoter Score

Also known as: NPS

Network Attached Storage Servers

Also known as: Network-Attached-Storage-Server

Object-Relational Mapper

Also known as: ORM

OCR

Also known as: Optical Character Recognition

Onboarding Walkthrough

Also known as: Walkthrough

Packages and Libraries

Also known as: Package, Library, Packages, Libraries

Plex Media Server

Also known as: Plex Server

Plug-ins, Add-ons, Extensions

Also known as: Plug-ins, Addons, Addon, Extensions, Extension, Plug-in

Printed Circuit Board

Also known as: PCBs

Read-Eval-Print Loop

Also known as: Read-Eval-Print Loop, REPL

Rebundling

Also known as: The Everything App

Reference Management System

Also known as: Reference Management, RMS, Reference Management Systems

Remote Procedure Call

Also known as: RPC

REST API

Also known as: REST APIs

Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Also known as: Retrieval-Augmented Generation, RAG

Robust Security Network

Also known as: RSN

Scalable Vector Graphics

Also known as: SVG, SVGs, Scalable Vector Graphic

SDK

Also known as: Software Development Kit

Search Engine Optimization

Also known as: SEO

Self-Hosting

Also known as: Self-Host, Self-Hostable

Semantic Versioning

Also known as: SemVer

Server Side Rendering

Also known as: SSR

Single Sign On

Also known as: SSO

Small Language Models

Also known as: SML, SMLs

Software Architecture Diagrams

Also known as: Architecture Diagrams

Software Bill of Materials

Also known as: [SBOM]

Standards Organizations

Also known as: Standards Organization

Static Site Generators

Also known as: SSG, Static Site Generation, Static Site Generator

Text Parsing

Also known as: Parsing

Text User Interfaces

Also known as: Text UI, Console User Interfaces, Console UI

Think Tanks

Also known as: Think Tank

Ticket Managers

Also known as: Ticket Manager

UI Builders

Also known as: UI Builder

UI Design

Also known as: UI Designers

Unicode Characters

Also known as: Universal Character Set, Unicode

User Interface

Also known as: UI

Vector Databases

Also known as: Vector Database

Venture Capital

Also known as: VC

VFX

Also known as: Visual Effects

Video Editing

Also known as: Video Editors

Video Generator

Also known as: Video Generators, Video Generation

Virtual Private Server

Also known as: VPS, Personal-Cloud

Voice User Interface

Also known as: VUI, VUIs, Voice User Interfaces

Wearables

Also known as: Wearable Devices, Wearable UI

Web Accessibility

Also known as: Accessibility

Web Browser

Also known as: Web Browsers, Browser, Browsers

Web Cams

Also known as: WebCams

Web Scraping

Also known as: Web Scraper, Web Scrapers

Web Server Gateway Interface

Also known as: WSGI

Web Standards

Also known as: Web Standard

WebAssembly

Also known as: WASM

Workflow Automations

Also known as: Workflow Automation

Workflow Management

Also known as: Project Management

Wrangling

Also known as: Data Wrangling

Zettabyte File System

Also known as: ZFS, Zetta File System

Concepts

292 concepts • 115.3K+ words

Important ideas and frameworks we use in our work.