Maggie Hunt#TechForNewbies: ArgsArgs — short for ‘arguments’ — are the values you feed into your functions. They are the values you ‘pass’ between chunks of code, as the…Jul 3Jul 3
Maggie Hunt#TechForNewbies: That’s my TypeIn programming, ‘typing’ defines the way variables interacts with each other, tied to the values they can hold — and the data types …Apr 15Apr 15
Maggie Hunt#TechForNewbies: Tech DebtTechnical Debt is a catchphrase often thrown around, essentially as a bit of a catchall for a few things you will one day need to resolve.Apr 11Apr 11
Maggie Hunt#LegacySystems: Why ‘tech for good’ is not good enough, Part 1 — Tech is not inherently fairWe don’t just need ‘tech for good’. We need good tech.Mar 27Mar 27
Maggie Hunt#TechForNewbies: ‘Infrastructure’ and ‘Architecture’You will often hear these terms used to describe the technical landscape of something you are working on.Feb 27Feb 27
Maggie HuntGreat article, thanks Gacheru! I was about to write one of my own but now have no need!Feb 20Feb 20
Maggie Hunt#TechForNewbies: What does ‘serverless’ mean?Serverless, put simply, means there is no ‘server’. JK, that’s not quite the case. It just feels that way.Feb 20Feb 20
Maggie Hunt#TechForNewbies: What is Metadata?Have you ever heard someone say ‘that’s so meta?’ — meaning ‘that thing is a version pertaining to a version of itself?’Feb 161Feb 161
Maggie Hunt#TechForNewbies: Data LakesData lakes are a colossal kind of data storage, which holds raw data in its ‘native’ (or ‘original’) format. They are often used for AI.Feb 13Feb 13