400 Bonus: Buzzwords and staying up to date [1d]

Web technology is a broad field and you cannot be an expert in all aspects.

However, it is useful to have a rough understanding of common terms and buzzwords, so that you don't seem uninformed when talking to a client or other developers.

Get an overview

Search the Internet for each of the following terms. Only take a couple of minutes for each and don't get into too much detail. Do get a rough idea about the advantages they promise.

• Continuous Integration or CI
• Single-Page Application or SPA
• Progressive Web Application or PWA
• Service Worker
• Software as a Service or SaaS
• Serverless
• React
• Svelte
• Vue.js
• Node.js
• NoSQL
• GraphQL
• Microservices
• Monorepo
• Elasticsearch
• AWS and EC2
• CDN
• Web Components or Custom Elements
• OAuth
• SAML
• 2FA
• Redis
• Docker ( good introduction video 🇩🇪 Show archive.org snapshot )
• Kubernetes or K8s
• Elixir / Phoenix
• A/B testing
• Internet of Things
• Blockchain
• DevOps
• Artificial Intelligence or AI or Machine Learning

Also read Awesome Cold Showers Show archive.org snapshot .

Discuss a few of these technology with your mentor. Focus your discussion on how the respective technology relates to our daily work as a web development consultancy.

Staying up to date

Below you can find resources to stay up to date. These will only help you if you can build a habit of consuming it periodically, e.g. a blog feed to read on the train or a podcast you can listen to while shopping or cleaning.

See if one of those work for you:

E-mail newsletters

• Release Notes by Working Draft
• Ruby Weekly Newsletter Show archive.org snapshot
• Web Development Reading List (WDRL) Show archive.org snapshot

Blogs

A good feed reader to subscribe to multiple blogs is Feedly Show archive.org snapshot . It has clients for web and mobile.

• Hey Designer Show archive.org snapshot
• Web Platform News Show archive.org snapshot
• TIL by Hashrocket Show archive.org snapshot
• Hacker News Show archive.org snapshot
• makandra dev deck
• CSS-Tricks Show archive.org snapshot
• CSS Weekly Show archive.org snapshot
• Smashing Magazine Show archive.org snapshot

You can also use Blogtrottr Show archive.org snapshot to receive feeds via email (e.g. as a daily digest).

Twitter

You can create a Twitter account Show archive.org snapshot just to follow accounts, you don't need to post.

• Hacker News 100 Show archive.org snapshot : Tweeting Hacker News stories as soon as they reach 100 points.
• @IntentToShip Show archive.org snapshot : Early notifications when browser makers plan a change

Podcasts

A good player to subscribe to multiple podcasts is Pocket Casts Show archive.org snapshot . It has free clients for Android and iOS. An 1€/month subscription gives you a web player.

• Working Draft Podcast Show archive.org snapshot
• INNOQ Podcast Show archive.org snapshot
• Geekstammtisch Podcast Show archive.org snapshot (with summaries Show archive.org snapshot )
• Heise SoftwareArchitekTOUR-Podcast Show archive.org snapshot (german)
• Shop Talk Podcast Show archive.org snapshot
• The Changelog Podcast Show archive.org snapshot
• Web Platform Podcast Show archive.org snapshot
• Software Engineering Radio Show archive.org snapshot