Glossary term
What is Thread? Meaning for developers
A worker inside a process that shares its memory. Example: A web server handling 200 requests with 200 threads.
Learn it properly · System DesignLesson 4: Processes, Threads & Concurrency for Backend EngineersMost backend work is waiting. How one server juggles thousands of requests — processes, threads, event loops and lightweight threads — and the race conditions, deadlocks and pool limits that appear the moment it does.