Timing Glossary

Browse 4 timing terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

4 Timing Terms

First Mover: A company that enters a market or category before most competitors, often hoping to build brand, distribution, or network effects early. Being first can help,...
Inference Time: The time taken by a model or AI pipeline to compute an output for a specific input at runtime. The phrase is often used interchangeably with inference latency,...
Production Friday: A Friday production event, usually invoked with dread because end-of-week timing reduces recovery comfort. In engineering slang, the phrase often signals that...
Race Condition: A bug that occurs when the behavior of a system depends on the sequence or timing of uncontrollable events — when two operations 'race' and the outcome depends...