Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform that stores ordered, replicated logs of records so many applications can publish and consume data…
KDE Plasma is a Qt-based Linux desktop environment from the KDE community, known for deep customization, the KWin compositor and a Wayland-first…
Kelvin is the unit used to express color temperature in photography, describing how warm or cool a light source appears and guiding…
The kernel is the core of an operating system that runs in privileged mode and manages the CPU, memory, devices and access…
Kerning in typography is the adjustment of space between specific letter pairs, such as AV or To, so that spacing in a…
Key exchange in cryptography lets two parties agree on a shared secret key over an untrusted network without ever sending that key…
The key light is the main light source in a photograph, setting the direction, quality and exposure of light on the subject…
A key-value store is a database model that saves each value under a unique key and retrieves it by that key, offering…
Keyboard navigation in accessibility is the ability to reach and operate every interface element with a keyboard alone, using a visible and…
A keyframe in video codecs is an intra-coded frame that is compressed without reference to other frames, serving as a start point…
Keyframing in motion graphics and VFX sets property values at chosen frames and lets software interpolate the motion between them over time.
A keyword in SEO is a word or phrase people type or speak into a search engine, which a page targets to…
A knowledge graph represents entities and their typed relationships as a graph with defined semantics, used in AI for search, reasoning and…
A KPI (key performance indicator) is a metric with a target that analytics teams use to show whether a business is progressing…
Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform that schedules, scales and heals containerized workloads across a cluster of machines.
KVM is the Linux kernel hypervisor that uses hardware virtualization extensions to run virtual machines as ordinary processes with near-native CPU speed.