AI engineering glossary · Computing foundations
What is daemon?
Daemon: A background process that starts with the system or on demand and runs without a user interface, providing a service such as web serving or scheduling. On Windows the equivalent is usually called a service.
Daemon: an example
The Docker daemon runs continuously in the background, waiting for commands to start containers.
Related terms
More Computing foundations terms
- Data center
- Data compression
- Deadlock
- Decimal number system
- Device driver
- DHCP
- Digital certificate
- Directory
Where you learn it
Daemon is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.