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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