Signals Glossary
Browse 11 signals terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
11 Signals Terms
- Canary
- A deliberately placed marker or value used to detect tampering, exploitation, or unexpected access, such as a stack canary, token canary, or canary document....
- Canary in the Coal Mine
- An early warning sign that points to a larger hidden problem. In engineering slang, a canary in the coal mine is usually a small failure or metric change that...
- Code Smoke
- The early visible signs that something in the code is burning, even before the full fire is obvious. In engineering slang, code smoke refers to weak warnings,...
- Flag
- A configurable switch, signal, or marker used to enable behavior, track state, or indicate a condition. In product and engineering culture, 'flag' often refers...
- Indicator
- A specific observable sign associated with suspicious or malicious activity, such as an IP address, domain, file hash, mutex, or process path. Indicators are...
- Intent Data
- Behavioral data suggesting that a company or buyer may be actively researching or considering a product category, such as content consumption, search behavior,...
- Intent Signal
- A specific indicator that a prospect may be entering a buying process, such as content downloads, job postings, website behavior, or partner alerts. Individual...
- Kill Dash Nine
- A spoken version of `kill -9`, usually said with a tone that mixes practicality and violence. In engineering slang, it stands for the bluntest process...
- Process Group
- A collection of one or more processes in a Unix-like OS that share a process group ID (PGID), allowing signals to be sent to the entire group at once. Process...
- Repository Health
- The overall condition of a repository as judged by signals like activity, issue response time, docs quality, test coverage, and release reliability. In...
- Warning Shot
- An early signal or minor incident that should be treated as a serious warning before worse things happen. In engineering slang, teams regret ignoring warning...
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