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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Timeout

Infrastructure

A hard limit on how long something may take.

Enforced by browsers, proxies, and serverless platforms. Work that exceeds one is killed partway through, leaving whatever it was doing half-finished.

TLS

Frontend

The encryption behind the S in HTTPS.

Makes the connection private and tamper-proof. Without it, anything between the user and your server can read and modify the page. Costs an extra handshake on the first connection.