Terms starting with "C"
Competency Questions
Natural-language queries that specify what a knowledge graph or ontology must be able to answer, used to scope and validate the model.
1w ago
Knowledge Engineering intermediate
Cloud KMS Key Management
PHP 7.4+ Managed services (AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault, Google Cloud KMS) that generate, store, rotate, and gate access to encryption keys via IAM.
CWE-320 OWASP A02:2021 Cryptographic Failures
3w ago
Cloud intermediate
7.5
Cloud Egress Costs
Per-gigabyte charges cloud providers levy on data leaving a region for the internet, other regions, or on-premises systems.
1mo ago
Cloud intermediate
Cryptographic Agility
The ability to swap cryptographic algorithms, key sizes, and protocols without rewriting application code or breaking deployed data.
1mo ago
Cryptography advanced
Coreference Resolution
1
Identifying all expressions in text that refer to the same real-world entity and linking them into unified mention clusters.
3mo ago
Knowledge Engineering advanced
Control Flow Graph
A directed graph representation of a program's execution paths where nodes are basic blocks and edges represent possible control transfers like branches, jumps, and loops.
3mo ago
Compiler advanced
Cloud IAM Roles
2
A named bundle of permissions attached to a principal that defines which actions it can perform on which cloud resources.
CWE-732 OWASP A01:2021-Broken Access Control
3mo ago
Cloud intermediate
8.1
Cloud Multi-Tenancy
PHP 8.0+
3
Serving multiple customers (tenants) from shared infrastructure while keeping their data and behaviour isolated.
4mo ago
Cloud intermediate
Cloud Backup & Disaster Recovery
1
Automated backups with tested restores, defined RPO/RTO targets, and cross-region replication for catastrophic failure recovery.
4mo ago
Cloud intermediate
Cloud Region Selection
1
The decision of which cloud region(s) to deploy workloads into, balancing user latency, data residency law, cost, and service availability.
4mo ago
Cloud intermediate
Client-Side Template Injection (CSTI)
Attacker-controlled input rendered as a template expression by a client-side framework (AngularJS, Vue, Handlebars), executing JavaScript in the victim's browser.
CWE-1336 OWASP A3:2021
5mo ago
Security advanced
7.5
Constitutional AI (CAI)
Anthropic's training methodology where models critique and revise their own outputs against a set of written principles, reducing reliance on human labellers for alignment.
5mo ago
AI / ML advanced
CSS Injection & Data Exfiltration via Stylesheets
2
Attacker-controlled CSS injected into a page or stylesheet that exfiltrates data via attribute selectors and `url()` callbacks, defaces UI, or enables phishing — all without a single line of JavaScript.
CWE-79 OWASP A3:2021
5mo ago
Security advanced
6.5
cgroups — Linux Control Groups
3
A Linux kernel feature that groups processes and meters or limits their access to CPU, memory, I/O, network, and other resources — the core primitive that makes Docker, systemd, and Kubernetes resource limits possible.
5mo ago
Linux advanced
Covariance & Contravariance
4.7 Variance describes how subtype relationships on a type's components affect subtype relationships on the whole type — covariant types follow the direction, contravariant types reverse it.
6mo ago
TypeScript advanced
Canonical URL (rel=canonical)
1
A <link rel='canonical'> tag that tells search engines which URL is the authoritative version of a page — preventing duplicate content from splitting ranking signals across multiple URLs.
6mo ago
Frontend intermediate
Core Web Vitals
Google's three field-measured performance metrics — LCP (loading), INP (interactivity), CLS (visual stability) — used as direct search ranking signals since 2021.
6mo ago
Performance intermediate
Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)
A Core Web Vital that measures unexpected visual movement of page elements during load — caused by images without dimensions, late-injected content, and font swaps. Target: under 0.1.
6mo ago
Performance intermediate
CSS Cascade Layers (@layer)
1
CSS @layer lets you explicitly define the order in which style groups are applied in the cascade — styles in a later layer always win over earlier ones regardless of specificity, eliminating specificity wars in large codebases.
6mo ago
Frontend intermediate
CSS Grid Template Areas
1
A CSS Grid feature that lets you name regions of a grid and assign elements to them by name, making complex layouts readable and maintainable without calculating column/row numbers.
6mo ago
Frontend beginner