Glossary

What are HTTP Cookies? — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

What are HTTP Cookies?

HTTP Cookies — also known as web cookies, browser cookies, or simply just cookies — are small pieces of data sent from a web server to a user’s browser. Although it depends on how a website or application uses cookies, a user’s web browser will typically store a cookie sent from a server as a way to retain persistent information about the user even after they leave the given website.

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What is a Database? — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

What is a Database?

A database is a collection of structured information organized in a way that it can be easily accessed, managed, and updated by computer programs.

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What is Node.js? — step-by-step Javascript tutorial on Progressive Robot

What is Node.js?

Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine. It allows programmers to create fast, scaleable, back-end JavaScript applications. The asynchronous and event-driven nature of Node.js makes it well suited for creating applications that can handle many connections at once, a common task for web servers and other back-end applications.

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What is the Relational Model? — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

What is the Relational Model?

The relational model is an abstract model used to organize data within a database. In order to control access to a database, write data, run queries, or perform any other tasks related to database management, a database management system must have some kind of underlying model that defines how…

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What is Serverless? — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

What is Serverless?

This the cloud provider Community Glossary entry provides a short introduction to serverless computing and links to related resources.

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What is PostgreSQL? — step-by-step Databases tutorial on Progressive Robot

What is PostgreSQL?

PostgreSQL, commonly referred to as “Postgres,” is an open-source relational database management system. As with other relational databases, PostgreSQL stores data in tables made up of rows and columns and users can define, manipulate, control, and query data using Structured Query Language, more commonly known as SQL.

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What is MongoDB? — step-by-step Databases tutorial on Progressive Robot

What is MongoDB?

MongoDB, also known as Mongo, is an open-source document database used in many modern web applications. It is classified as a NoSQL database because it does not rely on a traditional table-based relational database structure.

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What is Composer? — step-by-step Programming tutorial on Progressive Robot

What is Composer?

Composer is an open source dependency management tool for PHP, created primarily to facilitate the distribution and maintenance of PHP packages as individual application components. It has dramatically changed the PHP ecosystem by creating the basis for modern PHP development, with component-based applications and frameworks.

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What is HTML? — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

What is HTML?

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language used to display documents in a web browser. HTML uses tags to label pieces of content as different parts of a web document, such as headings, paragraphs, or links.

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What is JavaScript? — step-by-step Javascript tutorial on Progressive Robot

What is JavaScript?

JavaScript (also referred to as ‘javascript’ or JS) is a high-level, prototype-based, dynamic scripting language used to create interactive web pages and applications.

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