IT Glossary – IT terms explained simply

SaaS

DevOps & Cloud

3 min 984 views

Sandbox

Security

3 min 853 views

Scala

Programming

3 min 892 views

Scalability

Network

3 min 1.119 views

Scheduling

Operating systems

3 min 5.287 views

Scheme

Databases

3 min 990 views

Schrödinger equation

General

4 min 896 views

Scripting

Programming

4 min 3.173 views

Scrum

Software Engineering

4 min 907 views

SDK

Software Engineering

3 min 795 views

SDK installation

Software Engineering

3 min 822 views

Search Algorithm

Programming

3 min 843 views

Secured Socket Layer

Security

3 min 775 views

Security Architecture

Web development

4 min 3.203 views

Security Practices

Web development

3 min 5.791 views

Semaphore

Programming

3 min 1.294 views

Semaphore variable

Programming

3 min 822 views

SEO techniques

Web development

4 min 2.820 views

Server monitoring

DevOps & Cloud

3 min 921 views

Server-side rendering

Web development

3 min 798 views

Serverless

DevOps & Cloud

3 min 999 views

Service Worker

Web development

4 min 3.375 views

Service-Oriented Architecture

Software Engineering

3 min 853 views

Session Management

Security

3 min 813 views

Shadow DOM

Web development

3 min 768 views

Shareware

IT management

3 min 863 views

Shell

Operating systems

3 min 922 views

Shell scripting

Operating systems

4 min 1.451 views

secure encryption

Security

7 min 5.426 views

Signal processing

Data analysis & AI

4 min 5.227 views

Singleton

Programming

3 min 895 views

Singleton Design Pattern

Programming

3 min 845 views

Sinkhole

Security

3 min 875 views

Sketch

Software Engineering

4 min 2.158 views

Skimming

Security

3 min 764 views

Slack

IT management

4 min 2.962 views

Slack API

Web development

3 min 1.062 views

Smart Contract

Security

3 min 778 views

Smart contracts

Security

3 min 5.126 views

Smishing

Security

3 min 812 views

Snippet

Programming

3 min 1.066 views

Snippet Sharing

Programming

3 min 800 views

Social bots

Security

3 min 907 views

Social engineering

Security

3 min 912 views

Socket

Network

3 min 1.199 views

Software

Software Engineering

3 min 1.372 views

Software Artifact

Software Engineering

3 min 1.081 views

Software Build

Software Engineering

3 min 1.137 views

Software Container

DevOps & Cloud

4 min 810 views

Software Testing Lifecycle

Software Engineering

3 min 921 views

Software architecture

Software Engineering

4 min 2.796 views

Software architectures

Software Engineering

4 min 1.449 views

Software development

Software Engineering

3 min 5.126 views

Source Code

Software Engineering

3 min 1.092 views

Source Map

Software Engineering

3 min 969 views

Spam

Security

3 min 808 views

Spam filter

Web development

3 min 3.276 views

Sparse matrix

Programming

3 min 918 views

Spear phishing

Security

3 min 733 views

Spline interpolation

Programming

3 min 829 views

Spring Boot

Web development

3 min 881 views

Spyware

Security

3 min 845 views

SQL

Databases

3 min 953 views

SQL Injection

Security

3 min 807 views

SSL encryption

Security

4 min 870 views

SSL certificate

Security

4 min 791 views

SSL/TLS protocols

Network

3 min 1.116 views

Stack

Programming

3 min 1.129 views

Stack Overflow

Programming

4 min 956 views

State Machine

Programming

3 min 1.059 views

Stateless

Programming

3 min 1.026 views

Static Analysis

Software Engineering

3 min 778 views

Static Content

Web development

3 min 912 views

Static Variable

Programming

3 min 832 views

Sticky Session

Web development

3 min 1.170 views

Stream

Programming

3 min 858 views

Streaming Protocol

Network

2 min 789 views

Stress Testing

Software Engineering

4 min 1.603 views

String

Programming

3 min 1.219 views

Struct

Programming

3 min 954 views

Structured Data

Databases

3 min 934 views

Sublime Text

Software Engineering

3 min 828 views

Subnet

Network

3 min 879 views

Subroutine

Programming

3 min 919 views

Subversion

Software Engineering

4 min 3.864 views

Sudo Command

Operating systems

3 min 861 views

Supervisory Control

Software Engineering

3 min 770 views

SVG Rendering

Web development

3 min 813 views

Swagger

Web development

4 min 1.065 views

Swift

Programming

3 min 1.038 views

Symlink

Operating systems

3 min 852 views

Synchronisation

Programming

3 min 2.001 views

Syntax

Programming

3 min 1.018 views

Synthetic Testing

Software Engineering

3 min 732 views

System Architecture

Operating systems

3 min 876 views

System Call

Operating systems

3 min 939 views

System Integration

Operating systems

3 min 875 views

Migration scheme

Databases

4 min 847 views

Memory management

Operating systems

3 min 3.148 views

Memory management

Operating systems

4 min 1.407 views

Game theory

Programming

3 min 2.810 views