Comment by swaggyBoatswain

8 years ago

thanks this is a great way to learn about new terms. Adding onto this, I usually find the github repo of that keyword term (if its open source) and star it. If its a close source platform, I usually bookmark it on alternativeto.net and check up its competing cases. If its a youtube video, I usually put a like on it. this way I can just thumb through my favorites / likes / stars and get a complete picture of a modern toolset

Another good term is to do "Term VS ______" in google to learn about competing technology use cases as well

At the end of the day some of these terms are possibly all buzzwords but its nice to see what actual companies are using, what that business does, and why they might be using it. Sometimes you get some really nice insights when you dig down deeper (look at their forum posts, etc). This is especially true for things like ecommerce carts (run wappylzer → inspect what the site is running on), sometimes you can actually physically see the decisions they made at a company publically.