A printer is a computer peripheral that turns digital documents and images into physical output on paper or other media, mostly by…
Privacy by default means a system's out-of-the-box settings process only the personal data needed for each purpose, without any action by the…
Privacy by design is the engineering approach that builds data protection into systems from the first design decision instead of adding it…
A private cloud is cloud infrastructure operated for a single organization, offering self-service and pooled resources without sharing hardware with others.
A private endpoint in cloud networking is a network interface with a private IP address that connects a virtual network privately to…
A private IP is an address from ranges reserved for internal networks, reusable by any organization and not routed on the public…
Privilege escalation is the exploitation of a vulnerability or misconfiguration to gain access rights beyond those an account or process was granted.
A process ID is the numeric identifier an operating system assigns to each running process, used to signal, monitor and manage server…
A process limit caps how many processes or threads a user, service or hosting account may run at once, protecting server resources…
Process mining reconstructs how business processes actually run from system event logs, revealing variants, delays and rework to target automation.
Process priority in Linux is the value the kernel scheduler uses to decide which runnable process gets CPU time first and how…
A process supervisor is a program that starts, monitors and restarts server processes, keeping long-running services alive under defined policies.
A process tree in Linux is the hierarchy of running processes linked by parent and child relationships, rooted in PID 1 and…
A product attribute is a named, typed property of a catalog item, such as color, size or material, used for filtering, variants,…
A product backlog is the single ordered list of work a product team may do next, from features and fixes to research…
A product feed is a structured file or data stream that exports an online store's catalog, with prices and stock, to ads,…
Product-market fit is the stage at which a startup's product satisfies strong demand in a well-defined market, shown by retention and organic…
A product roadmap is a shared, evolving plan that shows which problems a product team intends to solve, in what order and…
Product schema is Schema.org structured data that describes a product, its price, availability and reviews so search engines can show rich product…
A product variant is a specific purchasable version of a product, defined by option values such as size or color and tracked…
Progressive scan is a video method that captures and displays every line of each frame in sequence, producing complete frames without interlacing…
A Promise in browser JavaScript is an object representing the eventual result of an asynchronous operation, either a fulfilled value or a…
A prompt is the input text, instructions and context given to a language model, which the model continues or answers to produce…
Prompt caching reuses the computed attention state of a repeated prompt prefix, cutting latency and input cost when serving large language models.
Prompt injection is an attack in which crafted text makes a language model follow an attacker's instructions instead of those set by…
Proof of stake is a blockchain consensus mechanism in which validators lock tokens as collateral to confirm blocks and lose part of…
Proof of work is a blockchain consensus mechanism in which miners spend computing power on hash puzzles to earn the right to…
ProRes is an Apple family of intra-frame video codecs designed for editing, offering high image quality and smooth playback at moderate bitrates.
A prototype in UI design is an interactive simulation of an interface that lets teams test flows and behavior with users before…
Proximity is the design principle that elements placed close together are perceived as a group, making spacing a primary tool for organizing…
Proxmox VE is an open-source Linux virtualization platform built on Debian that manages KVM virtual machines and LXC containers from one web…
Proxy editing is a video editing workflow that uses lightweight copies of high-resolution footage for smooth cutting, then relinks originals for export.
Pseudonymization replaces direct identifiers with pseudonyms so data cannot be linked to a person without separately held additional information.
PSNR (peak signal-to-noise ratio) is a video quality metric, in decibels, that measures pixel error between a compressed frame and its reference.
A PSU (power supply unit) converts AC mains power into the regulated low-voltage DC rails that a computer's motherboard, CPU, GPU and…
A public cloud is a cloud computing model in which a provider runs shared infrastructure and rents compute, storage and services to…
A public IP is a globally unique, routable Internet address assigned through the registry system and reachable from any network on the…
A pull request is a proposal to merge changes from one Git branch into another, where code is reviewed, discussed and tested…
Pulumi is an infrastructure as code platform that defines cloud resources in general-purpose languages such as TypeScript, Python, Go and C#.
A pure function always returns the same output for the same input and causes no side effects, the core building block of…
A PWA, or Progressive Web App, is a web application that uses a manifest and service worker to install, work offline and…
PWA installation is the process by which a browser adds a progressive web app to a device so it launches from the…
Python is a high-level, dynamically typed, general-purpose programming language known for readable syntax and a vast ecosystem of libraries.