Re:Plain English: A simple guide on words to avoid in govern...
by yulker on Friday December 23, 2022 @09:47AM
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What other terminology might better describe those concepts? These seem to be technical terms that describe specific things. Unless using them in an unrelated context (e.g. describing your pantry as a key value store), these seem relevant.
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Re:Plain English: A simple guide on words to avoid in govern...
by leokennis on Friday December 23, 2022 @11:14AM
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* stack → (depending on context): server, operating system etc.
* anti pattern → bad design
* key value store → (almost always) database
Re:Plain English: A simple guide on words to avoid in govern...
by marcosdumay on Friday December 23, 2022 @11:38AM
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> stack → (depending on context): server, operating system etc
On that context, "stack" means exactly the set of all those things and a few more. You can't replace it by any one of those things. The alternative is enumerating all of them (that's what people used to do), what is bad (that's why people coined the "stack" term).
> anti pattern → bad design
Hum... Now are you talking about software architecture, UI, UX, communications design? Your replacement is confusing.
> key value store → (almost always) database
It is an specific kind of database, with performance characteristics that are completely different from the relational databases that the "database" word alone implies.