IT Glossary – IT terms explained simply

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

P

PaaS

Package Manager

Packet

Padding

Pagination

Paging

Pair Programming

Pandas

Parallel

Parallel Computing

Parallel programming

Parallel Programming

Parcel

Parsing

Partitioning

Passkey

Password management

Patch

Patch management

Path

Payload

PCIe

Penetration testing

Penetration test

Performance Testing

Performance optimisation

Perl

Persistent Storage

Personal Area Network (PAN)

Personal data

Pharming

Phishing

PHP

Ping test

Pivot table

Pixel

PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)

Plain Text

Play Framework

Plugin

Podman

Pointer

Polyfill

Polymorphism

Port

Port Forwarding

Postgres

PowerShell

Predictive analysis

Prefetching

Primality

Primärschlüssel

Primitive Type

Print management

Priority Queue

Prisma (ORM)

Private cloud

Private Key

Privacy on the Internet

Process

Profiling

Programming languages

Progressive Web Apps

Prometheus

Promises

Prompt Engineering

Protocol

Protocols

Prototyping

Proxmox

Proxy

Proxy server

Processes

Process management

Pseudo code

Public Cloud

Public Domain

Public Key

Pull Request

Python

PyTorch