The process of reducing dependencies between components of a system to increase modularity and flexibility.

"Decoupling allows for individual components to be developed, modified, and tested without affecting the rest of the system."

A unit that indicates the workload of an employed person in a way that makes workloads or class loads comparable across various contexts.

"In software development projects, FTE is used to estimate the effort required by indicating how many full-time employees are needed to complete the project within a specified timeframe."

The environment where software and other products are actually put into operation for their intended uses by end users.

"The production environment is the live setting where users interact with the application, differing from the development and testing environments."

A situation that occurs when a software application requires specific versions of libraries or software components that are incompatible with other required versions, leading to complex dependencies that are difficult to resolve.

"Dependency hell can be mitigated by using virtual environments and careful management of package versions."

The foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web.

"HTTP is a protocol used for transmitting hypermedia documents, such as HTML, between client and server."