Glossaries

Lock / Mutex / Semaphore

Module / Package / Library / SDK

Write-Through / Write-Around / Write-Back

Real-time Communication Patterns: Websockets vs Server-Sent Events vs Long Polling vs Short Polling vs WebRTC

Traces / Spans / Events / Logs / Metrics

SLA / SLO / SLI

encoding / decoding vs serialization / deserialization vs marshalling / unmarshalling vs parsing + transcoding & codec

Messages / Event

User-level threads / Kernel-level threads

mock / stub / fake / dummy