Google Chrome Extensions: Guide to Development & Publishing

Data structures are the ways a program arranges data in memory (arrays, lists, hash tables, trees, graphs) and algorithms are the step-by-step procedures that work on them; together they decide whether an operation takes a millisecond or an hour as the data grows.

Python is a general-purpose programming language that became the standard interface for driving numerical and machine-learning code written in other languages.

Git is a distributed version control system that records the history of a set of files as a graph of snapshots, lets many people work on branches of that history at once, and merges their work back together.

Uptime is the proportion of time a service answers requests, quoted in nines, and a service level agreement is the contract clause setting out how that proportion is counted and what the provider owes when it falls short.

Shared hosting puts your website on a machine that is simultaneously running hundreds of other people's, pooling its processor, memory and disk between all of you, which is both why it costs so little and why your speed partly depends on strangers.

A VPS is a software-defined slice of one physical machine that behaves as a server in its own right, with its own operating system, reserved CPU, memory and disk, and administrative access down to the kernel.