Digital Job Knowledge: WEB / WAS / DB
There will be tasks to do something in the digital area.
Also, there are something that it is hard to understand about related words or sayings to the digital even though those are frequently mentioned.
WEB? WAS? DB?
By the way, do you think that the people working in the digital or planning a digital service should know these words (WEB / WAS / DB)?? As a result, they do not have to recognize those precise meaning. (like on the dictionary). However, it might be necessary to approximately understand about those words.
The three words, WEB, WAS, and DB, are the words which IT developers frequently mention about when you do the digital tasks, and discuss them with the developers. I thought that it should be essential to refer to the things around us for easy understanding of the three words.
It is ‘The Doll Clowing Machine’
*The Doll Clowing Machine is popular and easily found around us in Korea, Japan, and China.
WEB is the outward appearance which we can see with the naked eyes.
In others words, compared to the above image, it is a external shape of the doll clowing machine without dolls. If picking up a doll, we can get it through a specific part of the machine to take it out.
DB is abbreviation of ‘Database’.
Compared to the doll clowing machine, it is a doll in the machine.
WAS is a process or logic to make a database to be out to the external world. Compared to the machine on the above, it is a tongs and its route to take the dolls out. Database is showed or exposed by a logic or process.
*WAS is abbreviation of Web Application Server. Generally, it controls application programs or calculates data or numbers. (Refer to Wikipedia: ‘Application Server’
And, a person being in the front of the doll clowing machine is the customer for a business or service.
That is to say, the doll clowing machine is a service for the business. And, through the above contents, it describes about the steps to run something in the back-end area of digital.
Let’s back to the working area. In the past, you would just say like ‘Please just develop the service that the customer can get the dolls.’ However, if you understand the structure and meaning of the three words, WEB, WAS, and DB, you will be able to mention about the direction for its development or developer even though it is not detailed like the developers.
Digital Job Knowledge: WEB / WAS / DB
If you recognize those three keywords, I will guarantee it is more helpful for you to discuss or work with IT developers. Actually, as a view of the planner, it will be good if having more technical knowledge. Through this article, I hope that all people working or wanting to work in the digital area think it helpful.