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Server-sent events
Server-sent events (SSE) is a web standard for servers pushing text messages to browsers over HTTP, delivered as events through EventSource and one-way, unlike WebSockets.
Server-side rendering
Server-side rendering (SSR) is the practice of generating HTML on the server and sending it to the client, improving accessibility, search crawling, and initial load times.
Server-side request forgery
Server-side request forgery (SSRF) is a web vulnerability where an attacker tricks a server into making requests to arbitrary destinations, often to steal cloud credentials.
Server-side scripting
Server-side scripting, also called server-side programming or coding, is the practice of running code on a web server per HTTP request to generate dynamic pages and data.
Serverless computing
Serverless computing, also called serverless architecture, is a cloud execution model where providers manage servers and scaling automatically, and developers pay only for actual use; AWS Lambda established the category in 2014.
Servet Tazegül
Servet Tazegül, Turkish taekwondo featherweight (-68 kg) fighter born 1988 in Nuremberg; 2012 London Olympic gold, Turkey's first in taekwondo, 2008 bronze, world champion 2011 and 2015, later a coach.
Servet-i Fünûn
Servet-i Fünûn was an Ottoman and Turkish magazine published in Istanbul from 1891 to 1944, best known as the organ of the Edebiyât-ı Cedîde ("New Literature") movement of 1896 to 1901.
Servette FC
Servette FC, Geneva's Swiss Super League football club founded 20 March 1890, holder of 17 Swiss titles and 8 Swiss Cups, plays at the 30,000-seat Stade de Genève and is owned by the Fondation 1890.
Servi (robot)
Servi is an autonomous serving robot by Bear Robotics that carries food, drinks, and dirty dishes in restaurants and hotels, announced in 2020 with SoftBank Robotics.
Servian
Servian: chiefly the Servian Wall (Mura Serviane), Rome's first stone city wall, built after 378 BC of Grotta Oscura tufa from Veii; also Servian, a wine-growing commune in the Hérault, France, near Béziers.
Service (economics)
In economics, a service is an output that changes the condition of a consumer, generally not separable from its production or ownable as a separate entity.
Service à la française
Service à la française: formal European table service, codified in 17th-18th century France, in which all dishes of each service were placed on the table at once; replaced by service à la russe in the 19th century.
Service à la russe
Service à la russe, or Russian service, is sequential course-by-course dining introduced to France by Prince Alexander Kurakin around 1810, replacing service à la française's simultaneous platters; also called guéridon service, it underlies modern plated meals.
Service canadien de la faune herbarium
Service canadien de la faune herbarium (SCFQ), Sainte-Foy, Quebec: Canadian Wildlife Service herbarium of about 2,500 vascular plant specimens started in 1970, collectors including DeRepentigny and Stirrett.
Service Control Point
A Service Control Point (SCP) is a telephone network database node, central to the intelligent network, that switching offices query over SS7 for services like toll-free number translation.
Service Corporation International
Service Corporation International is a Houston-based deathcare company, the largest in North America, operating about 1,485 funeral homes and 500 cemeteries serving 700,000 families yearly.
Service credit
A service credit is a contractual remedy in which a cloud provider compensates a customer for failing to meet service-level agreement commitments, usually as a percentage of the fee.
Service drop
A service drop is the overhead conductor assembly carrying electricity from a utility's distribution line, usually the last pole, to a building, where the customer's service entrance begins.
Service entrance
A service entrance is the assembly of conductors, raceways, and equipment through which a utility delivers electric power to a building, running to the service disconnecting means.
Service flag
Service flag, or Blue Star flag: a US Department of Defense-authorized banner with a red border and blue stars on white, displayed by immediate family during wartime; patented by Robert Queisser in 1917.
Service function chaining
Service function chaining (SFC) is a network technique that steers classified traffic through ordered service functions like firewalls and load balancers, standardized by the IETF in RFC 7665.
Service level objective
A service level objective (SLO) is a measurable reliability target, such as 99.9% availability, that an organization commits to for a service over a time window.
Service Merchandise
Service Merchandise was a Nashville, Tennessee-based catalog showroom chain begun by the Zimmerman family in 1934; at its peak it sold over $4 billion a year before liquidating in 2002.
Service mesh
A service mesh is an infrastructure layer that manages, secures, and observes communication between microservices, typically through proxies, so application code need not implement these functions.
Service message
A service message is an abbreviated telegraphic exchange between communications personnel regarding telegram transmission or circuit conditions; in international telegraphy, service telegrams and advices corrected errors.
Service Model
Service Model is Adrian Tchaikovsky's 2024 standalone satirical science fiction novel (Tordotcom) about the robot valet Charles, renamed Uncharles, who kills his master and searches a post-apocalyptic world; a 2025 Hugo, Clarke, and Locus finalist.
Service module
A service module is the usually unpressurized portion of a spacecraft that carries the propulsion system, electrical power, and consumables such as propellant, oxygen, and water, and is jettisoned before re-entry.
Service network design
Service network design (SND) is an operations research method that decides which freight services to offer, at what frequency, and how demand flows over them in transportation systems.
Service of process
Service of process is the formal delivery of court documents, such as a summons and complaint, to notify a party of legal proceedings. Covers FRCP Rule 4, Mullane due process notice, the 1965 Hague Service Convention, comparative traditions, and electronic service rules.
Service pistol
A service pistol is a semi-automatic pistol or revolver issued as the standard personal defense sidearm of a nation's military or police, with dedicated military pistols dating to the 1800s.