Glossary: Letter N

An application performance monitoring (APM) platform that helps developers monitor, debug, and optimize their applications. New Relic provides distributed tracing, error tracking, real user monitoring...

A React framework for building full-stack web applications with server-side rendering, static site generation, and API routes. Developed by Vercel, Next.js provides file-based routing, automatic code...

A universal artifact repository manager by Sonatype that stores and manages build artifacts, container images, and software packages. Nexus supports multiple formats (Maven, npm, Docker, PyPI) and pro...

A high-performance web server, reverse proxy, and load balancer known for its stability, low resource consumption, and ability to handle a large number of concurrent connections. Nginx is widely used...

Configuration files for Nginx, a high-performance web server and reverse proxy. Uses a block-based directive syntax for server and location rules.

Source code for Nim, a statically typed compiled language combining Python-like syntax with C-level performance. It compiles to C, C++, or JavaScript.

Configuration files for the Nix package manager and NixOS, using a functional expression language for reproducible builds and system configuration.

A broad category of database management systems that diverge from the traditional relational model. NoSQL databases include document stores (MongoDB), key-value stores (Redis), column-family stores (C...

An open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that executes JavaScript code outside a web browser. Built on Chrome's V8 engine, Node.js is designed for building scalable, event-driven...

A flexible workload orchestrator by HashiCorp that deploys and manages containers, virtual machines, and standalone applications. Nomad is simpler than Kubernetes, supports multi-region and multi-data...

Apple Numbers Spreadsheet: the native spreadsheet format for Apple's Numbers application. It supports charts, formulas, and rich formatting within the iWork ecosystem.

A rich and powerful templating engine for JavaScript by Mozilla, inspired by Jinja2. Used in static site generators like Eleventy and Node.js web applications.

A Vue.js framework for building server-rendered, statically generated, and hybrid web applications. Nuxt.js provides auto-imports, file-based routing, SEO optimization, and multiple rendering modes ou...