bulkhead
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- noun
- /ˈbʌlkˌhɛd/
- Specialized
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- To avoid cascading failures during a server malfunction, the engineers set up bulkheads in the architecture.
Examples
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Willie listened along, glancing from the window to laugh, going with the flow of energy, which was a sort of bulkhead release, but not really too bad.
Fiction book (1997) -
On my most recent flight this week from New York back to Seattle, I was upgraded to my favorite spot: row 1, a legroomy bulkhead window seat.
Blog text (7) -
And the semantic bulkheads leak, seriously, especially if one is careless about limiting the terms of one's search.
Academic text (2002) -
A computer-generated chart of the Asteroid Belt was displayed on the bulkhead screen, a ragged sprinkling of colored dots between thin yellow circles representing the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
Fiction book (2001) -
In system design, a bulkhead is used to prevent one component's failure from affecting the entire network.
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The software implemented a bulkhead design pattern to ensure that performance issues remained contained.
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Etymology
Bulkhead in computing borrows the ship image and the parts bulk ('main load') and head ('end' or 'wall'): think of a wall on a ship that stops damage. In computing a bulkhead is a design that keeps problems in one part so the rest can keep working.