Google Glossary

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13 Google Terms

Android
An open-source, Linux-based mobile operating system developed by Google, powering the majority of the world's smartphones, tablets, and an expanding ecosystem...
AOSP
Android Open Source Project — the publicly available source code and build system for the Android operating system, maintained by Google. AOSP provides the...
Dart
A client-optimized programming language developed by Google, primarily known as the language behind the Flutter UI framework. Dart supports both ahead-of-time...
Gemini
Google's family of multimodal AI models, succeeding the PaLM series, capable of processing and generating text, code, images, audio, and video. Gemini launched...
Gemini Model
A model in Google's Gemini family, commonly discussed in the context of multimodal AI, assistants, and foundation-model competition.
Gemma
A family of lightweight generative models released by Google for research and application development. It influences how models are trained, evaluated, or...
Go
Go, also known as Golang, is a statically typed, compiled programming language designed at Google by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. Released in...
Golden Signals
Google SRE's four essential monitoring metrics: Latency (time to serve a request), Traffic (demand on the system), Errors (rate of failed requests), and...
Google Developer
A developer who builds with Google's platforms, tools, or ecosystems, or more loosely someone engaged with Google's developer-facing programs and communities....
Material Design
Google's comprehensive design system based on the metaphor of physical materials and paper — using realistic lighting, elevation shadows, and purposeful motion...
Protocol Buffer
A language-neutral, binary serialization format developed by Google (commonly called protobuf) in which data structures are defined in .proto schema files and...
SRE
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a discipline, originated at Google, that applies software engineering principles to infrastructure and operations. SRE...
V8
Google's open-source, high-performance JavaScript and WebAssembly engine, written in C++, that powers Chrome, Node.js, and Deno. V8 compiles JavaScript...

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