The sequence of certificates from a site's own certificate up to a trusted root certificate authority, each one signed by the next, that a client verifies before trusting a connection.
A GCP service that runs stateless containers, automatically scaling from zero to many instances based on incoming traffic, without you managing the underlying servers.
A merge where the target branch's history moves forward to match the source branch, with no new merge commit created — only possible when there's no divergent history to reconcile.
From: Git for a Real Website: The iamravi.com Workflow (Guide)
A numeric measurement recorded over time, like CPU usage or request count — good for trends and alerting, not for explaining a single specific failure.
From: Monitoring 101: Metrics, Logs, and Traces (Guide)
A statistical adjustment applied when an exam is conducted across multiple slots, correcting for any difficulty difference between slots so no candidate is advantaged or disadvantaged by which slot they were assigned.
A measure of standing relative to every other test-taker — a 99th percentile score means you scored higher than 99% of everyone who took the exam that year.
The underlying condition that, if changed, would have prevented the incident — as distinct from a contributing factor that merely made it worse or more likely.
From: Root Cause Analysis: A Simple Framework (Guide)
Transport Layer Security — the protocol that encrypts data in transit between a client and server; the successor to the older, deprecated SSL protocol (the names are still used interchangeably in casual conversation).
A second working directory attached to the same repository, checked out to a different branch, so you can work on two branches at once without stashing or switching.
From: Git for a Real Website: The iamravi.com Workflow (Guide)