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When a model reads a prompt and produces one token at a time, the attention mechanism computes a key and a value vector for every …","t":"KV Cache","u":"/glossary/kv-cache/"},{"a":["Model Evaluation","Model Evaluations"],"r":[{"t":"AI Evaluation","u":"/glossary/ai-evaluation/"},{"t":"AI Benchmark","u":"/glossary/ai-benchmark/"},{"t":"Red Teaming","u":"/glossary/red-teaming/"},{"t":"System Evaluation","u":"/glossary/system-evaluation/"},{"t":"RAG Evaluation","u":"/glossary/rag-evaluation/"},{"t":"How AI Models Are Evaluated: The Hidden Lifecycle","u":"/guides/how-ai-models-are-evaluated/"}],"s":" Model evaluation measures the model alone, the way a lens is tested on the bench before it goes into a camera. Model evaluation is the practice of testing an AI model on its own, separate from any application built around it. 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Instead of offering the broad menu of a general-purpose hyperscaler , a neocloud concentrates on fast access to large fleets of …","t":"Neocloud","u":"/glossary/neocloud/"},{"a":["Speculative Decoding","Speculative Decodings"],"r":[{"t":"Inference - Running AI Models in Production","u":"/glossary/inference/"},{"t":"KV Cache","u":"/glossary/kv-cache/"},{"t":"LLM - Large Language Model","u":"/glossary/llm/"},{"t":"Continuous Batching","u":"/glossary/continuous-batching/"},{"t":"How AI Models Are Evaluated: The Hidden Lifecycle","u":"/guides/how-ai-models-are-evaluated/"}],"s":" Speculative decoding sharpens the flow of tokens: a fast model roughs them out, the precise model confirms them in one pass. Speculative decoding is a way to make a large language model generate text faster without changing what it produces. A small, fast “draft” model guesses several of the next tokens. The large “target” model then …","t":"Speculative Decoding","u":"/glossary/speculative-decoding/"},{"a":["System Evaluation","System Evaluations"],"r":[{"t":"AI Evaluation","u":"/glossary/ai-evaluation/"},{"t":"Model Evaluation","u":"/glossary/model-evaluation/"},{"t":"RAG Evaluation","u":"/glossary/rag-evaluation/"},{"t":"RAG - Retrieval Augmented Generation","u":"/glossary/rag/"},{"t":"Agent Evaluation","u":"/glossary/agent-evaluation/"}],"s":" A model is one gear. System evaluation tests the whole chain that turns a user request into a useful answer. System evaluation measures the AI product end to end: the model plus the retrieval, prompts, tools, and guardrails wrapped around it. You judge whether the assembled system does the real job a user cares about, not how clever the …","t":"System Evaluation","u":"/glossary/system-evaluation/"},{"a":["Workflow Evaluation","Workflow Evaluations"],"r":[{"t":"AI Evaluation","u":"/glossary/ai-evaluation/"},{"t":"Agent Evaluation","u":"/glossary/agent-evaluation/"},{"t":"System Evaluation","u":"/glossary/system-evaluation/"},{"t":"Agentic Loops","u":"/glossary/agentic-loops/"},{"t":"RAG Evaluation","u":"/glossary/rag-evaluation/"}],"s":" A workflow is a chain of hand-offs, so you measure the whole arc, not one catch at a time. Workflow evaluation tests a chain of AI steps and hand-offs from start to finish, treating the whole pipeline as one unit under test. 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The CE marking requirement for AI follows the same principle used for decades in EU product safety regulation, extending it to …","t":"CE Marking for AI","u":"/glossary/ce-marking-ai/"},{"a":["Chain of Responsibility Pattern","Chain of Responsibility Patterns"],"r":[{"t":"Command Pattern","u":"/glossary/command-pattern/"},{"t":"Mediator Pattern","u":"/glossary/mediator-pattern/"},{"t":"Decorator Pattern","u":"/glossary/decorator-pattern/"},{"t":"Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)","u":"/glossary/object-oriented-programming/"}],"s":"The Chain of Responsibility pattern is a behavioral design pattern that avoids coupling the sender of a request to its receiver by giving more than one object a chance to handle the request. 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By proactively testing how the system responds to disrupted networks, failed services, increased latency, and resource exhaustion, teams build confidence that the system handles …","t":"Chaos Engineering","u":"/glossary/chaos-engineering/"},{"a":["CIA Triad","Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability","CIA Triads","Confidentiality, Integrity, Availabilitys"],"r":[],"s":"The CIA Triad is a foundational model in information security that identifies three core objectives: Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability. Every security control, policy, and architecture decision can be evaluated in terms of how it supports or balances these three properties.\nOrigins and History The concepts of confidentiality, …","t":"CIA Triad","u":"/glossary/cia-triad/"},{"a":["Class Diagram","Class Diagrams"],"r":[],"s":"A class diagram is a UML structural diagram that shows the classes in a system, their attributes and methods, and the relationships between them. 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This separation of roles is the foundational paradigm for networked computing.\nOrigins and …","t":"Client-Server Architecture","u":"/glossary/client-server-architecture/"},{"a":["Cloud Governance","Cloud Governances"],"r":[{"t":"AWS Cloud Governance for AI Workloads","u":"/guides/cloud-governance-aws/"},{"t":"Cloud Security Posture Management for AI Workloads","u":"/guides/cloud-security-posture-management/"},{"t":"AWS vs Azure Governance Tools","u":"/comparisons/aws-vs-azure-governance/"},{"t":"Enterprise Cloud Governance Framework","u":"/frameworks/cloud-governance-framework/"},{"t":"Data Sovereignty","u":"/glossary/data-sovereignty/"}],"s":"Cloud governance is the set of policies, processes, organizational structures, and technical controls that an organization implements to manage its use of cloud computing services. It ensures that cloud resources are used securely, cost-effectively, and in compliance with regulatory requirements while supporting business objectives.\nCore …","t":"Cloud Governance","u":"/glossary/cloud-governance/"},{"a":["Clustering","Clusterings"],"r":[{"t":"Unsupervised Learning","u":"/glossary/unsupervised-learning/"},{"t":"K-Means Clustering","u":"/glossary/k-means/"},{"t":"Dimensionality Reduction","u":"/glossary/dimensionality-reduction/"}],"s":"Clustering is an unsupervised learning technique that groups data points into clusters based on similarity, without predefined labels. Points within a cluster are more similar to each other than to points in other clusters. Clustering discovers natural structure in data, enabling segmentation, anomaly detection, and exploratory analysis. …","t":"Clustering","u":"/glossary/clustering/"},{"a":["CMMI","Capability Maturity Model Integration","CMMIs","Capability Maturity Model Integrations"],"r":[],"s":"Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is a process improvement framework that provides organizations with a structured approach to improving their processes and performance. It defines maturity levels that characterize how well an organization’s processes are defined, managed, measured, and optimized.\nOrigins and History CMMI …","t":"CMMI","u":"/glossary/cmmi/"},{"a":["COBIT","Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies","COBITs","Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologie"],"r":[],"s":"COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies) is a framework for the governance and management of enterprise information and technology. 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It models the system at a higher level of abstraction than class diagrams, focusing on the organization of deployable software units rather than …","t":"Component Diagram","u":"/glossary/component-diagram/"},{"a":["Component-Driven Development","Component-Driven Developments"],"r":[{"t":"Virtual DOM","u":"/glossary/virtual-dom/"},{"t":"Web Components","u":"/glossary/web-components/"}],"s":"Component-driven development (CDD) is the practice of building user interfaces from small, isolated, reusable components. Each component encapsulates its own markup, styling, and behavior, and can be developed, tested, and documented independently of the application that consumes it. Components are composed together to form increasingly …","t":"Component-Driven Development","u":"/glossary/component-driven-development/"},{"a":["Composite Pattern","Composite Patterns"],"r":[{"t":"Decorator Pattern","u":"/glossary/decorator-pattern/"},{"t":"Iterator Pattern","u":"/glossary/iterator-pattern/"},{"t":"Visitor Pattern","u":"/glossary/visitor-pattern/"},{"t":"Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)","u":"/glossary/object-oriented-programming/"}],"s":"The Composite pattern is a structural design pattern that composes objects into tree structures to represent part-whole hierarchies. 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Standard classifiers trained on imbalanced data tend to …","t":"Imbalanced Data","u":"/glossary/imbalanced-data/"},{"a":["Immutable Infrastructure","Immutable Infrastructures"],"r":[{"t":"Infrastructure as Code (IaC)","u":"/glossary/infrastructure-as-code/"},{"t":"Docker","u":"/glossary/docker/"},{"t":"GitOps","u":"/glossary/gitops/"},{"t":"Twelve-Factor App","u":"/glossary/twelve-factor-app/"}],"s":"Immutable infrastructure is the practice of never modifying servers or containers after deployment. Instead of patching, updating, or configuring running systems, you build a new image (AMI, container image) with the desired state and replace the old instances entirely. 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It promotes the design of small, focused interfaces tailored to specific client needs rather than large, general-purpose interfaces that bundle unrelated capabilities.\nOrigins and History The Interface Segregation …","t":"Interface Segregation Principle (ISP)","u":"/glossary/interface-segregation-principle/"},{"a":["Interpreter Pattern","Interpreter Patterns"],"r":[{"t":"Composite Pattern","u":"/glossary/composite-pattern/"},{"t":"Visitor Pattern","u":"/glossary/visitor-pattern/"},{"t":"Strategy Pattern","u":"/glossary/strategy-pattern/"},{"t":"Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)","u":"/glossary/object-oriented-programming/"}],"s":"The Interpreter pattern is a behavioral design pattern that, given a language, defines a representation for its grammar along with an interpreter that uses the representation to interpret sentences in the language.\nOrigins and History The Interpreter pattern was cataloged by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides in …","t":"Interpreter Pattern","u":"/glossary/interpreter-pattern/"},{"a":["IP Addressing and Subnetting","IP Addressing and Subnettings"],"r":[],"s":"IP addressing assigns a unique numerical identifier to every device on an IP network. 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The algorithm converges when assignments stabilize.\nHow It Works Initialize K centroids randomly …","t":"K-Means Clustering","u":"/glossary/k-means/"},{"a":["K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN)","K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN)s"],"r":[{"t":"Clustering","u":"/glossary/clustering/"},{"t":"K-Means Clustering","u":"/glossary/k-means/"},{"t":"Dimensionality Reduction","u":"/glossary/dimensionality-reduction/"},{"t":"Support Vector Machine (SVM)","u":"/glossary/support-vector-machine/"},{"t":"Cross-Validation","u":"/glossary/cross-validation/"}],"s":"K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) is a non-parametric supervised learning algorithm that makes predictions based on the K closest training examples in the feature space. For classification, it assigns the majority class among the K neighbors. For regression, it averages their values. 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Built on the Code OSS platform (the open-source foundation of VS Code), Kiro guides developers through a structured workflow of requirements gathering, technical design, and task …","t":"Kiro","u":"/glossary/kiro/"},{"a":["KISS Principle","Keep It Simple","KISS Principles","Keep It Simples"],"r":[{"t":"YAGNI Principle - You Aren't Gonna Need It","u":"/glossary/yagni-principle/"},{"t":"DRY Principle - Don't Repeat Yourself","u":"/glossary/dry-principle/"},{"t":"SOLID Principles","u":"/glossary/solid-principles/"},{"t":"Clean Architecture","u":"/glossary/clean-architecture/"}],"s":"The KISS principle (Keep It Simple, Stupid) states that most systems work best if they are kept simple rather than made complex. It advocates for straightforward, understandable solutions and warns against unnecessary complexity in design, code, and architecture.\nOrigins and History The KISS principle originated with Kelly Johnson, lead …","t":"KISS Principle","u":"/glossary/kiss-principle/"},{"a":["Knowledge Distillation","Knowledge Distillations"],"r":[{"t":"Quantization","u":"/glossary/quantization/"},{"t":"Pruning","u":"/glossary/pruning/"},{"t":"Fine-Tuning vs Prompt Engineering vs RAG","u":"/glossary/fine-tuning/"},{"t":"Transfer Learning","u":"/glossary/transfer-learning/"}],"s":"Knowledge distillation is a model compression technique where a large, high-performing model (the teacher) transfers its learned behavior to a smaller, more efficient model (the student). 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It stores data in open file formats on object storage (S3) but adds a metadata and transaction layer that enables warehouse-like query performance and …","t":"Lakehouse Architecture","u":"/glossary/lakehouse/"},{"a":["Law of Demeter","Law of Demeters"],"r":[{"t":"Encapsulation","u":"/glossary/encapsulation/"},{"t":"SOLID Principles","u":"/glossary/solid-principles/"},{"t":"Facade Pattern","u":"/glossary/facade-pattern/"},{"t":"Mediator Pattern","u":"/glossary/mediator-pattern/"}],"s":"The Law of Demeter (LoD), also known as the Principle of Least Knowledge, is a design guideline stating that a method should only talk to its immediate friends and not to strangers. 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Together, they form a foundation for building robust systems that accommodate change without cascading breakage.\nOrigins and History The five principles were assembled and promoted by …","t":"SOLID Principles","u":"/glossary/solid-principles/"},{"a":["Spec-Driven Development","Spec-Driven Developments"],"r":[{"t":"AI Agents - Autonomous Task Execution","u":"/glossary/ai-agents/"},{"t":"Agentic AI","u":"/glossary/agentic-ai/"}],"s":"Spec-driven development is a software development pattern in which structured specifications are written and validated before any implementation code is produced. The specifications define what needs to be built (requirements), how it will be built (design), and the ordered steps to build it (tasks). 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It captures state-dependent behavior: the same event may produce different responses depending on the object’s current state. State machine diagrams are …","t":"State Machine Diagram","u":"/glossary/state-machine-diagram/"},{"a":["State Pattern","State Patterns"],"r":[{"t":"Strategy Pattern","u":"/glossary/strategy-pattern/"},{"t":"Singleton Pattern","u":"/glossary/singleton-pattern/"},{"t":"Flyweight Pattern","u":"/glossary/flyweight-pattern/"},{"t":"Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)","u":"/glossary/object-oriented-programming/"}],"s":"The State pattern is a behavioral design pattern that allows an object to alter its behavior when its internal state changes. The object appears to change its class because its behavior changes completely based on its current state.\nOrigins and History The State pattern was cataloged by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John …","t":"State Pattern","u":"/glossary/state-pattern/"},{"a":["State Space Model","State Space Models"],"r":[{"t":"Transformer Architecture","u":"/glossary/transformer-architecture/"},{"t":"Recurrent Neural Network","u":"/glossary/recurrent-neural-network/"},{"t":"Long-Context Model","u":"/glossary/long-context-model/"},{"t":"Deep Learning","u":"/glossary/deep-learning/"}],"s":"A state space model (SSM) in the context of deep learning is a sequence modeling architecture inspired by classical control theory. SSMs map input sequences to output sequences through a continuous latent state, offering linear-time complexity with respect to sequence length. 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The model learns to map inputs to outputs by minimizing the difference between its predictions and the known correct labels.\nHow It Works You provide the model with a training dataset …","t":"Supervised Learning","u":"/glossary/supervised-learning/"},{"a":["Supply Chain Security","Supply Chain Securitys"],"r":[{"t":"NIS2 - Network and Information Security Directive","u":"/glossary/nis2/"},{"t":"DORA - Digital Operational Resilience Act","u":"/glossary/dora/"},{"t":"AI Supply Chain Security","u":"/patterns/ai-supply-chain-security/"},{"t":"NIS2 Implementation Guide","u":"/guides/nis2-implementation-guide/"},{"t":"EU Cyber Resilience Act","u":"/frameworks/cyber-resilience-act/"}],"s":"Supply chain security in the context of AI and cybersecurity refers to the practices, controls, and governance mechanisms used to manage risks introduced by third-party components, services, and providers that an AI system depends on. 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