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  • Application Programming Interface

    Defined interface that lets software systems communicate by specifying the available calls, how to make them, and the data formats exchanged.

  • Computer Appliance

    Computing device pairing hardware and software engineered for one well-defined function, deployed as a sealed unit that cannot be repurposed for general computing.

  • Developer Guide Index

    Developer guide index for the PointSav platform — task-oriented how-to guides organised by concern, from toolchain setup to session lifecycle.

  • Edge Computing

    Distributed computing paradigm that places computation and storage near data sources, cutting latency and bandwidth versus centralized cloud data centers.

  • Editorial language registers

    Three distinct language registers matching the PointSav wikis to their audiences: financial-press, developer-platform, and regulatory-specification prose.

  • Editorial philosophy

    Every article is a learning resource that teaches understanding rather than retrieving facts, structured with encyclopedic lead paragraphs, internal linking, and consistent heading hierarchy suited to both human and machine readers.

  • Fog Computing

    Distributed architecture placing compute, storage, and network services between edge devices and the cloud, defined by Cisco in 2012 and standardized as IEEE 1934-2018.

  • Getting Started with the PointSav Platform

    An orientation to the PointSav developer platform: what it is, who it is for, and where to start.

  • Hardware reference

    Reference hardware profiles for developer workstations and fleet devices, specifying CPU architectural requirements including Haswell-generation x86_64 and fsgsbase support, and defining three infrastructure deployment patterns from on-premise to cloud.

  • How this knowledge base is organized

    A reader's map of the platform knowledge base: fourteen areas covering what PointSav builds, how it is built, why it can be trusted, and how customers run it — written so both engineers and financial readers can navigate it.

  • Just Enough Operating System

    Operating system philosophy that reduces the OS to the minimum components a specific application needs, shrinking attack surface, memory footprint, and maintenance.

  • Lightweight Linux Distribution

    Linux distribution engineered to use far less RAM and processor capacity than full-featured distributions, suited to constrained, embedded, and legacy hardware.

  • News release typography and layout standards

    Enforces strict formatting rules for corporate news syndication: left alignment, title case discipline, geographic precision, and standardized header and dateline structures ensuring institutional authority across physical and digital mediums.

  • PointSav encyclopedia — glossary and lexicon

    A canonical A-to-Z lexicon bridging standard industry terminology with PointSav platform concepts, providing authoritative definitions across technical, operational, and financial domains.

  • Quick Start — First Session on the PointSav Platform

    A concise first-session guide for engineers and contributors evaluating the PointSav platform.

  • Root files discipline

    The convention that every repository and project sub-clone keeps a small, explicitly enumerated set of canonical companion files at its root — and nothing else.

  • Security Through Obscurity

    Reliance on secrecy of design or implementation as a primary security mechanism, rejected in professional practice since Kerckhoffs' principle of 1883.

  • SLM operationalization plan

    The strategic and operational plan for transitioning from externally hosted language model calls toward a per-tenant small language model substrate that heals through a compounding feedback loop.

  • Structural positioning

    Structural positioning is the PointSav approach to market differentiation: articulating architectural commitments that are visible in the code and topology, rather than making named-competitor comparisons or performance benchmarks.

  • User Experience Design

    Multidisciplinary design practice covering every aspect of a user's interaction with a company and its products, coined by Donald Norman at Apple in the early 1990s.

  • User Interface Design

    Discipline of designing human-machine interfaces to maximize usability and user experience, governed by the dialogue principles of the ISO 9241 standard.

  • Virtual Appliance

    Pre-configured virtual machine image combining a minimal operating system with a specific application, distributed as a self-contained unit for compatible hypervisors.

  • Wiki provider landscape

    An audit of 25 wiki platforms across four groups documents structural reasons no competitor has closed Wikipedia's encyclopedic gap, and identifies the governance software, navigation primitives, and editorial culture required to do so.

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