Sockets Glossary

Browse 2 sockets terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

2 Sockets Terms

Unix Socket: A colloquial shorthand for Unix domain socket — an IPC endpoint identified by a filesystem path rather than an IP address and port. The socket file (e.g.,...
Zeromq: A high-performance asynchronous messaging library that provides socket-like abstractions (pub/sub, push/pull, request/reply) over TCP, IPC, and in-process...