IT Glossary – IT terms explained simply

PaaS

DevOps & Cloud

4 min 2.844 views

Package Manager

Software Engineering

3 min 858 views

Packet

Network

3 min 864 views

Padding

Operating systems

3 min 974 views

Pagination

Web development

3 min 910 views

Pandas

Data analysis & AI

3 min 4.383 views

Parallel

Programming

5 min 4.929 views

Parallel Computing

Operating systems

3 min 792 views

Parallel programming

Programming

6 min 3.343 views

Parallel Programming

Programming

4 min 4.720 views

Parcel

Web development

3 min 2.254 views

Parsing

Programming

3 min 1.194 views

Parsing

Programming

4 min 4.195 views

Partitioning

Databases

4 min 2.603 views

Password management

Security

3 min 1.662 views

Patch

Software Engineering

3 min 1.323 views

Patch management

Software Engineering

3 min 829 views

Path

Operating systems

3 min 1.154 views

Payload

Network

3 min 1.035 views

Penetration testing

Security

3 min 1.001 views

Penetration test

Security

3 min 761 views

Performance Testing

Software Engineering

4 min 826 views

Performance optimisation

Web development

4 min 3.462 views

Persistent Storage

Databases

3 min 948 views

Personal Area Network (PAN)

Network

3 min 932 views

Personal data

IT management

3 min 876 views

Pharming

Security

3 min 789 views

Phishing

Security

3 min 903 views

PHP

Web development

3 min 1.074 views

Ping test

Network

6 min 5.262 views

Pivot table

Databases

3 min 818 views

Pixel

Web development

3 min 941 views

PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)

Security

4 min 3.204 views

Plain Text

Operating systems

3 min 936 views

Play Framework

Operating systems

4 min 1.275 views

Plugin

Software Engineering

3 min 1.212 views

Pointer

Programming

3 min 1.128 views

Polyfill

Web development

3 min 807 views

Polymorphism

Programming

5 min 3.142 views

Port

Network

3 min 1.213 views

Port Forwarding

Network

3 min 904 views

Postgres

Databases

4 min 784 views

PowerShell

Operating systems

3 min 848 views

Predictive analysis

Data analysis & AI

3 min 786 views

Prefetching

Web development

4 min 824 views

Primality

Programming

4 min 4.501 views

Primitive Type

Programming

3 min 779 views

Print management

IT management

3 min 763 views

Priority Queue

Programming

3 min 951 views

Private cloud

DevOps & Cloud

3 min 855 views

Private Key

Security

4 min 807 views

Privacy on the Internet

Security

4 min 928 views

Process

Operating systems

3 min 896 views

Profiling

Software Engineering

3 min 899 views

Programming languages

Programming

3 min 2.623 views

Progressive Web Apps

Web development

3 min 2.659 views

Promises

Programming

4 min 3.493 views

Promises

Programming

3 min 4.774 views

Protocol

Network

3 min 1.161 views

Protocols

Network

4 min 3.463 views

Prototyping

Software Engineering

3 min 1.022 views

Proxy

Network

3 min 1.407 views

Proxy server

Network

3 min 849 views

Processes

Operating systems

4 min 4.333 views

Process management

IT management

4 min 3.646 views

Pseudo code

Programming

3 min 914 views

Public Cloud

DevOps & Cloud

3 min 804 views

Public Domain

IT management

3 min 815 views

Public Key

Security

3 min 812 views

Python

Programming

3 min 987 views

PyTorch

Data analysis & AI

4 min 988 views