IT Glossary & Dictionary

An automatic memory management process that identifies and reclaims memory no longer in use by a program.

A function that yields values one at a time using the yield keyword, enabling memory-efficient iteration over large datasets.

A mutex in CPython that allows only one thread to execute Python bytecode at a time, limiting true parallelism.

A distributed version control system that tracks changes in source code during software development.

A branching model for Git that defines a strict workflow with feature, develop, release, hotfix, and main branches.

A CI/CD platform integrated into GitHub that automates build, test, and deployment workflows using YAML configuration.

A practice where Git repositories serve as the single source of truth for both application code and infrastructure configuration.

Google's suite of cloud computing services running on the same infrastructure that Google uses for its consumer products.

An open-source analytics and visualization platform for creating dashboards from various data sources.

A database that uses graph structures with nodes, edges, and properties to store and query highly connected data.

A query language for APIs that lets clients request exactly the data they need, reducing over-fetching and under-fetching.

A command-line utility for searching plain-text data for lines matching a regular expression pattern.

A high-performance RPC framework using Protocol Buffers and HTTP/2 for efficient service-to-service communication.

The Grand Unified Bootloader, a program that loads the operating system kernel into memory during system startup.