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Jamstack is almost 10 years old. For developers today, it’s just a natural way they’ve learned to build websites.

But it wasn’t always like that. Biilman coined the term in 2015. to be able to easily refer to the architectural approach of decoupling the app logic from the backend and infrastructure.

“Jamstack allowed new developers to learn web technology and build websites really quickly without having to dive into a lot of backend and infrastructure code,” says Matt.

This video is a part of ShiftMag’s video series, Engineer Explains.

We’ve asked experienced engineers to share how they would explain some basic and some less basic tech terminology to different tech job titles or at three levels of experience — from junior developer to CTO.

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How would you explain APIs, internal developer platforms, software architecture, software testing, scaling infrastructure without breaking the bank, low-code as a dev tool, what is a database, Network APIs or Developer Relations at three levels of experience?

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