Time to Live Slang
Noun · Slang & Abbreviations
Definitions
Informal use of time to live for how long something should persist before expiring or being refreshed. In engineering slang, TTL gets mentioned far beyond networking whenever stale state is a risk.
In plain English: Casual jargon for how long something should last before expiring.
Example: "They shortened the feature flag's time to live slang because cached values were lingering too long after rollback."