Resources Glossary
Browse 7 resources terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
7 Resources Terms
- Budget
- A defined limit on resources such as money, CPU time, latency, memory, build minutes, or engineering effort that a team or system is expected to stay within....
- Cleanup
- The work of releasing resources, removing temporary state, deleting no-longer-needed data, or reversing setup after an operation completes. Cleanup logic is...
- Cloud Resource
- A provisioned unit of cloud infrastructure or service such as a VM, bucket, load balancer, function, queue, or database instance. Cloud resources are usually...
- Compute Resource
- Any measurable computational capacity such as CPU cores, memory, GPU time, or allocated execution slots used to run software. Compute resources are often...
- Resource Access
- The ability of a user, process, or service to reach and use a protected resource such as a file, database, API, queue, or device. Security architecture...
- Resource Exhaustion
- A condition in which CPU, memory, file handles, threads, storage, connection slots, or another limited resource is consumed until normal operations fail....
- Zero Budget
- A situation where expectations exist but meaningful funding does not. In engineering slang, zero budget projects survive on creativity, reuse, and a dangerous...
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