G

GAAFET(GAAFET)

Gate-All-Around Field-Effect Transistor; an advanced transistor architecture where the gate contacts the channel on all sides.

hardware

Game Day

A scheduled event where a team intentionally triggers a failure in a staging or production environment to practice their incident response and test system resilience.

dev

GameFi

A fusion of gaming and finance, referring to the gamification of financial systems where players can earn economic rewards through gameplay.

web

Gamepad API

A browser API that allows web applications to respond to input from game controllers and other similar devices.

web

Game Theory in Web3

The application of mathematical models of strategic interaction to design incentives in decentralized networks.

web

Gas Limit

The maximum amount of computational work that a user is willing to pay for a specific transaction on the Ethereum network.

web

Gas Price

The amount of cryptocurrency a user is willing to pay per unit of gas for a transaction.

web

Gas War

A situation where users compete for block space by bidding increasingly higher gas prices.

web

Gated Recurrent Unit(GRU)

A variation of the LSTM that simplifies the architecture by combining the forget and input gates into a single 'update gate.'

ai

Gatsby

A free and open-source framework based on React that helps developers build blazing-fast websites and apps using GraphQL.

web

GDDR6(GDDR6)

Graphics Double Data Rate 6; a type of high-performance synchronous dynamic random-access memory (SGRAM) designed for GPUs.

hardware

GDPR(GDPR)

A comprehensive data privacy and security law in the European Union that imposes strict requirements on how organizations handle personal data.

security

Generative Adversarial Network(GAN)

A class of machine learning frameworks where two neural networks compete to create realistic data.

ai

Genesis Block

The very first block of a blockchain network, often hardcoded into the software.

web

Genetic Algorithm(GA)

An optimization and search technique inspired by the process of natural selection and biological evolution.

ai

Geolocation API

A browser API that allows web applications to access the geographical location of the user's device.

web

Geospatial Visualization

The use of maps and other spatial representations to visualize data that has a geographic component.

ai

Gestalt Principles

Psychological principles that describe how humans naturally perceive and organize visual elements into groups or unified wholes.

ai

ggplot2

A system for declaratively creating graphics, based on The Grammar of Graphics, for the R programming language.

ai

Gitflow

A Git branching model that involves the use of feature branches and multiple primary branches.

dev

Git Hooks

Scripts that Git executes before or after events such as commit, push, and receive.

dev

GitHub Actions

A CI/CD and automation platform integrated directly into GitHub, allowing developers to automate workflows triggered by GitHub events.

cloud

GitLab CI

A built-in continuous integration and delivery service provided by GitLab.

cloud

GitOps

An operational framework that takes DevOps best practices used for application development and applies them to infrastructure automation.

cloud

GLBP(GLBP)

A Cisco proprietary protocol that provides both gateway redundancy and load balancing across multiple routers.

network

Global Accelerator

A networking service that improves the availability and performance of applications with local or global users by using a cloud provider's global network infrastructure.

cloud

Global Server Load Balancing(GSLB)

A technology that distributes network traffic across multiple data centers located in different geographical regions.

network

Goodput

The amount of useful application-level data delivered over a network, excluding all protocol overhead and retransmitted packets.

network

Governance

The system of rules, practices, and processes by which a decentralized protocol or organization is directed and controlled.

web

Governance Token

A token that grants holders the right to vote on proposals and influence the direction of a decentralized protocol or DAO.

web

GPT-3(GPT-3)

Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3; a massive decoder-only language model that demonstrated remarkable few-shot learning capabilities.

ai

Gradient Boosting

An ensemble technique that builds a strong predictive model by sequentially adding weak models (typically decision trees) that correct the errors of previous models.

ai

Gradient Clipping

A technique used to prevent 'exploding gradients' by capping the maximum value of gradients during backpropagation.

ai

Gradient Vanishing Problem

A difficulty in training deep neural networks where gradients become extremely small during backpropagation, preventing weights from updating effectively.

ai

Grafana

An open-source platform for monitoring and observational dashboards that integrates with a wide variety of data sources.

cloud

Graphics Processing Unit(GPU)

A specialized processor designed to rapidly process data in parallel, originally for graphics but now widely used for AI and scientific computing.

ai

GraphQL

A query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data.

web

Grid Search

A traditional method for hyperparameter optimization that exhaustively searches through a manually specified subset of the hyperparameter space.

ai

gRPC

A high-performance, open-source universal RPC framework developed by Google.

web

Gustafson's Law

A law in computer science that suggests that as systems become more powerful, the size of the problems they solve also increases, leading to better-than-expected speedups.

hardware

Gwei

A denomination of Ether used to measure gas prices.

web

Gzip

A popular file format and software application used for file compression and decompression, widely used to compress web assets during transit.

web