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Postgres schema & querying

aka ANSI SQL

OOP, services, tooling (Maven)

aka JDK, JRE

Dynamic language of the web; client and server via Node.js.

aka JS, ECMAScript

Typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to JS.

aka TS

Procedural systems programming language; small runtime, close to hardware.

Compiled language adding OO/generics to C with modern high-level features.

aka C++, cxx

Language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.

App Router, SSR/ISR, API routes

SQL access via JDBC drivers & pools

aka Java JDBC

UI library for building component-based interfaces.

aka React

Modeling, tuning, and operating data stores and relational systems.

aka DB Design

VM setup & troubleshooting

aka VM, Virtualization

Stable Linux distribution for servers and workstations.

aka Debian Linux

Hosted Git platform for code, issues, and CI (Actions).

JavaScript runtime built on V8 for server-side apps and tooling.

aka Node

High-performance web server and reverse proxy.

Scheduling recurring jobs and maintenance tasks with cron.

aka cron

Provisioning, environments, CI/CD plumbing, and observability basics.

aka Infra

Container basics

Basic k8s concepts; can run examples

aka K8s

Lightweight data-interchange format (key/value with arrays).

Linked Data serialization for embedding structured data in pages.

Techniques and algorithms enabling computers to learn patterns from data. Includes experience with supervised and unsupervised models, evaluation metrics, and basic model deployment.

Shared vocabulary for structured data markup on web pages.

Schema, relations, migrations

aka Prisma ORM

Conversational AI assistant based on OpenAI’s GPT models. Used for research, code help, debugging, content drafting, and rapid prototyping; comfortable with custom prompting and workflow integration.

Designing, documenting, and integrating application programming interfaces.

aka APIs

Distributed version control for source code history and collaboration.

Build lifecycle, deps, multi-module

aka Apache Maven

Resource-oriented HTTP API design principles and practices.

aka REST API

Stylesheet language for describing the look of HTML.

aka CSS3

Markup language for structuring content on the web.

aka HTML5

Desktop UI with FXML & controllers

aka OpenJFX

Using semantic markup and structured data for meaning and accessibility.

aka Structured Web

Declarative UI for JavaFX

Visual UI layout for JavaFX

aka Gluon SceneBuilder

Working in asynchronous flows: tickets, docs, PRs, and message queues.

aka asynchronous

Secure defaults, authN/Z, OWASP awareness, and hardening basics.

aka AppSec, OWASP

TCP/IP basics, routing, DNS, HTTP, and troubleshooting.

aka TCP/IP