Controversial Glossary

Browse 7 controversial terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

7 Controversial Terms

Blitzscaling
Blitzscaling is a growth strategy for startups that prioritizes speed over efficiency in an environment of uncertainty, deliberately accepting high burn rates...
Founder Mode
A management approach where a founder stays deeply involved in the company's details and decision-making rather than delegating to professional managers....
Monorepo
A single version control repository containing multiple projects or services. Google, Meta, and Microsoft use monorepos containing billions of lines. Whether...
Open Floor Plan
An office design without private offices or cubicle walls, intended to foster collaboration but scientifically shown to reduce face-to-face interaction by 70%...
ORM
Object-Relational Mapping — a technique that lets you interact with a database using your programming language's objects instead of raw SQL. Beloved by those...
Singleton
A Singleton is a creational design pattern that restricts a class to exactly one instance and provides a global point of access to it. No matter how many times...
Training Data
The dataset used to teach a machine learning model. The quality, size, and representativeness of training data fundamentally determine a model's capabilities...

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