Terms starting with S

216 terms

  • Survey

    Marketing › Market research

    A survey in market research is a structured questionnaire given to a defined sample to measure attitudes, behavior and preferences at scale.

  • Swap

    Servers › Server resources

    Swap is disk space a server uses as overflow for RAM, letting the kernel move idle memory pages out so active processes…

  • SwiftUI

    Mobile › App development

    SwiftUI is Apple's declarative user interface framework for building native apps in Swift across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV.

  • SWOT

    Marketing › Market research

    SWOT is a strategic analysis framework in market research that maps an organization's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to guide decisions.

  • Symbolic link

    Linux › Filesystem

    A symbolic link is a Linux filesystem entry that stores a path to another file or directory, which the kernel follows transparently…

  • Symmetric encryption

    Cybersecurity › Cryptography

    Symmetric encryption is the cryptography method that uses one shared secret key both to encrypt and to decrypt data, as in AES…

  • Symmetry

    Photography › Composition

    Symmetry in photographic composition is a balanced arrangement in which one part of the frame mirrors or repeats another around an axis…

  • Synchronous replication

    Databases › Replication

    Synchronous replication is a database replication mode in which a commit succeeds only after one or more replicas confirm they have received…

  • Syslog

    Servers › Monitoring & logs

    Syslog is the standard protocol and message format servers and network devices use to send log events, tagged by facility and severity,…

  • System call

    Operating systems › OS fundamentals

    A system call is the controlled entry point through which a user program asks the operating system kernel to do privileged work…

  • System Restore

    Windows › Windows updates & recovery

    System Restore is the Windows recovery feature that rolls system files, drivers, registry and programs back to an earlier restore point.

  • System software

    Software › Software fundamentals

    System software is the layer of programs that manages hardware and provides services to applications, including operating systems, drivers and firmware.

  • systemctl

    Linux › System initialization

    systemctl is the command-line tool for controlling systemd on Linux, used to start, stop, enable and inspect services, targets and other units.

  • systemd

    Linux › System initialization

    systemd is the Linux init system and service manager that runs as PID 1, starts the system in parallel and supervises services…

  • systemd timer

    Linux › System initialization

    A systemd timer is a Linux unit file that activates another unit on a calendar schedule or after a delay, a modern…

  • systemd unit

    Linux › System initialization

    A systemd unit is a declarative configuration object that tells systemd how to start, stop, order and supervise one resource during Linux…