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2. RPA Skills

Tom Taulli1 
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Monrovia, CA, USA
 

The Technologies You Need to Know

While RPA does not require programming skills, there is still a need to understand high-level concepts about technology. Unfortunately, the concepts can get extremely complex and confusing. It seems like there is an endless number of acronyms like ACL, API, OCR, CPU, HTTP, IP, JSON, NOC, PCI, RAM, and SaaS.

Even tech veterans do not know many of the terms – or have just a vague understanding of their meanings. For example, here’s how Kubernetes is defined:

Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized ...

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