I see Docker mentioned every other thread and was wondering how useful it is for non development things, and if so what they are.

  • @DecronymABEnglish
    4•8 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
    IP Internet Protocol
    TCP Transmission Control Protocol, most often over IP
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
    k8s Kubernetes container management package
    nginx Popular HTTP server

    5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 7 acronyms.

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