Glossary

The words, without the shrug

Every term the courses use, defined in one line and then in a paragraph. Written to be read out of order.

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Latency

Infrastructure

Time spent waiting rather than working.

The delay before a response begins. Largely set by physical distance and the number of round trips, not by processing speed. London to Virginia is about 80ms round trip no matter how good your code is.