Glossary
The terms behind the work - what they mean, when they apply, and where they show up in our projects.
AI & data
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AI agents
A language model that does not just answer but calls tools and carries multi-step tasks through to completion on its own.
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LLM
A model trained on very large amounts of text that processes and generates language - the basis of most of today AI applications.
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MLOps
The practice of not just building models but shipping, monitoring, and being able to withdraw them reliably.
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Prompt engineering
The work of giving a language model its task, context, and output format so the result is reliably usable.
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RAG
A technique where a language model first retrieves the relevant passages from your own documents, then bases its answer on them.
Security & compliance
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DevSecOps
The practice of building security checks into the development and delivery process rather than bolting them on afterwards.
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ISO 27001
The international standard for information security management systems - and the proof customers in regulated industries ask for.
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NIS2
The EU cybersecurity directive that obliges considerably more companies to demonstrable security measures and incident reporting.
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Threat model
The structured question of what can go wrong in a system, who would benefit, and what it would cost.
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Zero Trust
A security model that verifies every access individually instead of deriving trust from a position in the network.
Engineering & platform
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Astro
A web framework that ships pages without JavaScript by default and adds interactivity only where it is needed.
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CI/CD
The automated chain from a code change to a shipped application - built, checked, and released without manual steps.
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Core Web Vitals
The three metrics Google uses to measure the experienced quality of a page: load time, responsiveness, and visual stability.
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Headless CMS
A content system that serves content through an interface instead of rendering the presentation itself.
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Kubernetes
A system that runs containers across multiple servers, monitors them, and restarts them on its own when they fail.
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Next.js
A React framework that brings together server rendering, routing, and data access - the most common route to React applications that also rank.