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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Port

Infrastructure

Which program on a machine you are talking to.

A number that lets one machine run many servers at once. The address finds the machine, the port finds the program: a web app on 3000, a database on 5432.

Process

Infrastructure

A running program.

One instance of your code, executing. A server is a process that is listening; when it exits, the server is gone even though the machine is still on.