Reference Guide

Technical Glossary

A dictionary of key terms across modern web design, backend systems, cloud DevOps, and search engines.

AEO (Answer Engine Optimization)

The strategy of optimizing content so that it is easily crawled, digested, and displayed by AI assistant answer engines like ChatGPT and Gemini.

RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)

A method that enhances LLM responses by fetching relevant context from local files or vector databases before generating the final answer.

Headless CMS

A decoupled content management system that acts strictly as a data storage repository, serving content over JSON REST APIs to external frontend frameworks (like React).

Serverless Architecture

A cloud computing model where developers build and deploy code execution blocks (like AWS Lambda) without having to manage server instances.

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

An open-source standard for exposing local development files, command executions, and databases securely to AI developer models.