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Hardware ↔ Physical Components of Computer

CPU​

Hardware brain of Computer to execute Machine Code Instruction

Memory​

main low-latency RAM in Computer - NOT Virtual Memory || disk space

I/O

References​

  1. OS ↔ System Software to manage Hardware (device/process) & provide GUI for user

  2. Low-Level ↔ of Programming Language to Abstract less with Source Code closer to Machine Code, req closer management of Hardware resources

  3. High-Level ↔ of Programming Language to Abstract Source Code away from Low-Level details (ie allocating Hardware resources)

  4. Static Web Server ↔ Computer Hardware run HTTP Server Software to send Static Content hosted files to Clients

  5. Hardware Server ↔ Hardware to host server (ie rent via datacenter)

  6. CPU ↔ Hardware brain of Computer to execute Machine Code Instruction

  7. Kernel ↔ Middleware to connect Hardware resource to Software

  8. UI ↔ Interaction between human and app/Hardware

  9. VM ↔ Software to emulate Hardware & OS

  10. Docker ↔ popular Dev tool to Containerize workload to run on any Hardware/OS environ

  11. Docker Container ↔ Docker Image Runtime instance to virtualize OS as lightweight VM (excl Hardware overhead)

  12. Low-Level API ↔ API with more granular control over software Module or Hardware, with fewer Abstraction

  13. Vertical Scaling ↔ to add more Hardware to existing Server to increase compute 🗼

  14. MAC ↔ Message Authentication Code UID link to Hardware