CS Glossary
A quick index into most common abbreviations in the domain of computer science
| Abbrev | Expansion |
|---|---|
| ACME | Fictional Corps |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| AU | Active Users |
| BIOS | Basic Input/Output System |
| CDN | Content Delivery Network |
| DNS | Domain Name System |
| DoS | Denial of Service |
| HTTP | Hyper Text Transfer Protocol |
| IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| IRC | Internet Relay Chat |
| NTP | Network Time Protocol |
| NUMA | Non Uniform Memory Access |
| QPS | Queries Per Second |
| RFC | Request For Comments |
| SDLC | Software Development Life Cycle |
| SHA | Secure Hash Algorithms |
| SMS | Short Message Service |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| SPOF | Single Point of Failure |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer: Precursor to TLS |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security |
| UEFI | Unified Extensible Firmware Interface |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
| UTF | Unicode Transformation Format |
| PoP | Point of Presence |
| BLOB | Binary Large Object |