10 programming buzzwords you need to know
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10 programming buzzwords you need to know

With the programming industry moving at such a rapid pace. It's often difficult to stay up to date with the latest technologies and terminology. But luckily middle endian has you covered. Drop any of the following words into conversation and get instant respect from your colleagues..

1. Monad - In Gnosticism a Monad is often used to mean the highest god which created lesser gods. In programming, you are considered a Monad if you created an entire application without contribution from anyone else within 6 days.

2. Agile - Agile is a way of working. In layman’s terms, it can be thought of as getting poor quality code deployed as quickly as possible, then leaving the company, leaving other people to deal with the repercussions, also known as consulting.

3. NodeJS - A gang signal used to indicate developer toughness. Gang members will throw a NodeJS gang sign to establish dominance over other developers.

4. Functional Programming - Applications used to be written in a single main function. If you split you application into multiple functions, this is considered functional programming

5. Closures - Javascript tool designed to test how applications handle memory leaks.

6. Continuous Delivery - In 1997 scientists discovered that production users don’t require a salary, but QA analysts do. This discovery was named ‘Continuous Delivery’.

7. Big Data - Recommended for when your companies data grows to the point that programmers have run out of further material for their resume.

8. Cloud Computing - It has been scientifically proven that programming while high on marijuana can improve a programmers ability to solve problems. This is called cloud computing as you are considered to be so high you are in the clouds.

9. JSON - The name of the person that created javascript. Although internet browsers have the ability to run any programming language. Javascript is still the language most chosen to develop web applications.

10. Websockets - blah…