Connection

Definitions

1. An established communication link between a client and a server, process and resource, or one system and another. Connections may be persistent or short-lived, and their lifecycle has major implications for latency, pooling, retries, and failure handling.

   In plain English: A communication link between one system or component and another.

   Example: "The service reused a single database connection far too long, which masked failover events and made recovery slower when the backend switched nodes."

Related Terms

• Localhost
• Epoll
• Multiplexing
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• Connection Retry
• Connection Timeout