IPC

Definitions

1. Short for inter-process communication: the mechanisms operating systems provide for separate processes to exchange data or coordinate work. Common IPC methods include pipes, Unix domain sockets, shared memory, message queues, and signals.

   In plain English: It means different running programs on the same machine have a way to talk to each other.

   Example: "We split the worker out of the web process, so now the image pipeline talks over IPC instead of in-process calls."

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