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Qinling Glossary
================

As the Qinling project evolves, it's important that people working on Qinling,
users using Qinling, and operators deploying Qinling use a common set of
terminology in order to avoid misunderstandings and confusion. To that end, we
are providing the following glossary of terms.

Runtime
~~~~~~~

The runtime is programming language support. In Qinling, each runtime is
encapsulated in a container image which is used for creating the runtime
container. Qinling communicates with the container by sending HTTP requests and
runs user function inside. Currently, Qinling only supports Python 2 and
Python 3 officially and Node.JS in experimental.