IT Glossary – IT terms explained simply

Over 1.160 technical terms from software development, DevOps, cloud and IT security – explained simply and clearly

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5 min 4.309 views

Cache

4 min 1.697 views

Cache Miss

5 min 1.212 views

Cache Poisoning

5 min 1.098 views

Caching

Web development

5 min 5.286 views

Call-to-action (CTA)

5 min 1.086 views

Callback

5 min 1.727 views

Callbacks

5 min 3.458 views

CAN-SPAM Act

5 min 5.115 views

Canary Deployment

5 min 3.204 views

Canvas

Web development

5 min 5.535 views

CAP-Theorem

5 min 2.919 views

CAPTCHA

5 min 1.039 views

Cardano (ADA)

5 min 2.252 views

Casting

5 min 2.793 views

CDN

Web development

5 min 1.331 views

CERT

5 min 1.117 views

Certificate Authority

5 min 1.266 views

Change management

5 min 1.228 views

Chaos Computer Club (CCC)

5 min 1.267 views

Chaos Engineering

5 min 2.652 views

Character Encoding

Operating systems

5 min 1.205 views

Checksum

2 min 1.361 views

CI/CD-Pipeline

5 min 1.676 views

CIA Triad

5 min 1.089 views

Circuit Breaker

5 min 3.296 views

Class

5 min 1.628 views

Clean Code

4 min 1.185 views

CLI

Operating systems

5 min 1.776 views

Client Management

5 min 1.286 views

Clojure

5 min 873 views

Closure

5 min 1.423 views

Cloud Act

5 min 1.151 views

Cloud computing

5 min 1.436 views

Cloud Native

5 min 976 views

Cloud management

5 min 1.135 views

Cloud telephony

5 min 1.124 views

Cloudflare

5 min 1.295 views

Cluster

5 min 1.985 views

CMDB

5 min 794 views

CMS

Web development

5 min 5.809 views

CNAME Records

5 min 2.111 views

COBIT

5 min 2.572 views

COBOL

5 min 2.493 views

Code Coverage

5 min 2.374 views

Code Review

Software Engineering

5 min 1.491 views

Code Smell

5 min 3.283 views

Codebase

Software Engineering

6 min 1.444 views

Codecodings

5 min 1.166 views

Codecs

Operating systems

5 min 3.493 views

Coding Standards

Software Engineering

5 min 5.061 views

Coinhive

5 min 1.168 views

Cold Boot

Operating systems

2 min 1.239 views

Collision

5 min 1.543 views

Command Line

Operating systems

5 min 1.452 views

Command-and-Control-Server

5 min 2.840 views

Compiler

5 min 1.589 views

Compression

5 min 1.540 views

Compression Algorithm

5 min 1.354 views

Computer Vision

Datenanalyse & KI

5 min 2.557 views

Computer graphics

Data analysis & AI

5 min 3.697 views

Computer virus

5 min 1.156 views

Computer worm

5 min 1.091 views

Concurrency

5 min 3.619 views

Concurrent

5 min 1.750 views

Concurrent Programming

6 min 1.290 views

Configuration Management

5 min 4.494 views

Connection Pool

4 min 1.299 views

Container

5 min 3.887 views

Content Delivery Network

Web development

5 min 1.440 views

Content Marketing

1 min 3.760 views

Context Switching

Operating systems

6 min 1.578 views

Continuous Integration

5 min 6.893 views

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

Datenanalyse & KI

5 min 2.835 views

Cookie

Web development

4 min 1.285 views

Cookie Policy

Web development

5 min 1.028 views

Cookies

Web development

5 min 1.614 views

Core Web Vitals

6 min 2.992 views

Coroutines

5 min 1.113 views

CouchDB

5 min 854 views

CPU

Operating systems

6 min 1.697 views

CQRS

5 min 855 views

Credential stuffing

5 min 1.142 views

Critical Section

5 min 1.194 views

CRM (Customer Relationship Management)

5 min 1.233 views

Cron

5 min 642 views

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

5 min 1.220 views

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

5 min 1.264 views

Cryptanalysis

5 min 1.182 views

Cryptography

6 min 1.312 views

Cryptojacking

3 min 1.064 views

Cryptolocker

5 min 1.050 views

CSS

Web development

5 min 1.563 views

CSS Grid

5 min 2.282 views

CSS modules

Web development

5 min 3.155 views

CSS optimisation

Web development

5 min 4.480 views

CSS-Variablen

5 min 2.078 views

CSS3

Web development

5 min 4.616 views

Cursor

5 min 1.623 views

CVE

4 min 2.797 views

CVSS

5 min 431 views

Cyberattack

5 min 1.156 views

Cybercrime insurance

5 min 1.079 views

Cyberheist

5 min 1.041 views

Cybercrime

5 min 1.304 views

Cybersecurity

5 min 1.554 views