What Is a Pipeline?

Just wanted to let you know, the url seems to be duplicated:

https://inconsistentrecords.co.uk/blog/what-the-fook-is-a-pi...

navigable link ^

A long running draft of some rambling thoughts, but this term is used relentless. What does it really MEAN!?

Hopefully something of interest from a software engineer... would like to write more but interested in the discussion and feedback of others.