Glossary: Letter D

Domain Name System: the hierarchical decentralized naming system that translates human-readable domain names (e.g., example.com) into IP addresses (e.g., 93.184.216.34) that computers use to communica...

Document Object Model: a programming interface for HTML and XML documents that represents the page structure as a tree of objects, allowing programs to dynamically access and update the content, struc...

A data structure that improves the speed of data retrieval operations on a database table at the cost of additional storage space and slower write operations. Indexes are typically implemented using B...

A subset of machine learning that uses artificial neural networks with multiple layers (deep neural networks) to learn hierarchical representations of data. Deep learning excels at tasks like image re...

A set of practices, cultural philosophies, and tools that combines software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops) to shorten the systems development lifecycle and provide continuous delivery with...

An open-source platform for developing, shipping, and running applications in lightweight, portable containers. Docker packages an application and its dependencies into a standardized unit called a co...