DevOps Skills Part 2: Talking Like a Toddler

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What in the world did I just say?  I sound like a toddler talking in words and sounds that make no sense at all! 🙊The funny thing is, if you talk to a person involved with DevOps, they will know and understand exactly what you said! 😲

whack = "/"  That forward slash symbol on a Mac key board that is usually placed under the ? ...... that is referred to as a "whack".  Think of a duck quacking who forgot to sound the "q". 🙈

That forward slash (/) "whack" is the path separator that will eventually lead to the file on your web server.  Let's say the url is www.cloviscorp.com/collegium/grammar/index.html , then the browser will first find the webserver (in this case:  www.cloviscorp.com).  It then starts in that server's filesystem at the docroot (/var/html/www) and then continuing through to /collegium/grammar , where the file index.html resides (at the webserver's filesystem: /var/html/www/collegium/grammar/index.html).

dub-dub-dub = "www"  We all know that "www" precedes the domain name of a website.  To the layman, "www" is the understood way to say this.  In DevOps - you better start singing that song in your head: rub a "dub-dub" --->  well in this case it's rub a "dub-dub-dub"

bang = "!"  Huh?  That is an exclamation mark.  Yep, it is.  However in DevOps, it is known as a "bang".  Don't ask me why, but it is.  So if you are in your terminal using the Vi editor, to exit out of that you would type ":q!" which when spoken, is said as "colon q bang".  The exclamation mark (!) "bang" has a few meanings, but the most common meaning is "not".  For example, if == means "equals", then != means "not-equals".  1 == 1,    3 != 1

So there you have it, DevOps people do know how to have some fun  - even if it is computer fun.  

Look out for my next blog - where I will finally talk about XML and even some cool shortcuts I learned.

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Rubber Ducks - Photo by JOSHUA COLEMAN on Unsplash
Boy Playing with Toys - Photo by li tzuni on Unsplash
Bang - Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash