Glossary: Letter C

Content Delivery Network: a geographically distributed network of proxy servers that delivers web content (images, CSS, JavaScript) from the server closest to the user, reducing latency and improving...

Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (or Delivery): a set of practices that automate the building, testing, and deployment of code changes. CI ensures code is regularly merged and tested; CD...

Content Management System: a software application that enables users to create, manage, and modify digital content on a website without requiring specialized technical knowledge. Examples include Word...

Create, Read, Update, Delete: the four basic operations for persistent data storage. In web development, CRUD operations correspond to HTTP methods: POST (Create), GET (Read), PUT/PATCH (Update), and...

Cross-Site Request Forgery: a type of web security vulnerability where an attacker tricks a user into performing unintended actions on a web application they're authenticated with. Protection involves...

Cascading Style Sheets: a style sheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in HTML. CSS controls layout, colors, fonts, spacing, and responsive design behavior.

A dependency management tool for PHP that allows developers to declare libraries their project depends on and manages (install/update) them. Composer uses a composer.json file and installs packages fr...

A field of artificial intelligence that enables computers to interpret and understand visual information from the world, such as images and videos, by extracting meaningful data using deep learning al...