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/ziː ʃɛl/ or /zɛd ʃɛl/

n. "Extended UNIX shell blending Bourne compatibility with interactive superpowers like spelling correction and recursive globbing."

/pɪp/

n. "Python's standard package installer for fetching, resolving, and deploying modules from PyPI and beyond."

/ɛn piː ɛm/

n. “JavaScript's default package manager and registry for discovering, installing, and managing Node.js dependencies through a vast ecosystem of reusable modules.”

/ˌɑːr-diː-ˈɛs/

n. “The managed database service that takes care of the heavy lifting.”

/ˌsiː-ˌaɪ-ˌiː-ˈɛm/

n. “The central nervous system for cybersecurity monitoring.”

SIEM, short for Security Information and Event Management, is a cybersecurity solution that collects, aggregates, analyzes, and correlates log and event data from various sources across an organization’s IT infrastructure. It provides real-time monitoring, alerts, and reporting to detect, investigate, and respond to security incidents.

Key characteristics of SIEM include:

/lʊk-ɛm-ɛl/

n. “The language that teaches Looker how to see your data.”

LookML is a modeling language used in Looker to define relationships, metrics, and data transformations within a data warehouse. It allows analysts and developers to create reusable, structured definitions of datasets so that business users can explore data safely and consistently without writing raw SQL queries.

/ˌtiː-piː-ˈjuː/

n. “Silicon designed to think fast.”

TPU, or Tensor Processing Unit, is Google’s custom-built hardware accelerator specifically crafted to handle the heavy lifting of machine learning workloads. Unlike general-purpose CPUs or even GPUs, TPUs are optimized for tensor operations — the core mathematical constructs behind neural networks, deep learning models, and AI frameworks such as TensorFlow.

/ˈtɛr.ə.fɔrm/

n. “Infrastructure described as intent, not instructions.”

Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code (IaC) tool created by HashiCorp that allows engineers to define, provision, and manage computing infrastructure using human-readable configuration files. Instead of clicking through dashboards or manually issuing commands, Terraform treats infrastructure the same way software treats source code — declarative, versioned, reviewable, and repeatable.

/ˈlʊk-ər/

n. “See the numbers, tell the story.”

Looker is a business intelligence (BI) and data analytics platform designed to turn raw data into actionable insights. It connects to databases, warehouses, and data lakes — for example, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, or SQL Server — allowing users to explore, visualize, and share data across organizations.

/ˈdeɪtəˌfləʊ/

n. “Move it, process it, analyze it — all without touching the wires.”

Dataflow is a managed cloud service designed to handle the ingestion, transformation, and processing of large-scale data streams and batches. It allows developers and data engineers to create pipelines that automatically move data from sources to sinks, perform computations, and prepare it for analytics, machine learning, or reporting.