pupstream
Pupstream refers to the concept of data flowing "upstream" from a source to a central point or destination. In computing and network architecture, this often describes the direction of data transmission. For example, in a client-server model, a client sending a request to a server is an upstream transmission. Similarly, a user uploading a file to a cloud storage service is sending data upstream.
This term is commonly used in networking to distinguish from downstream, which refers to data flowing from
In the context of data pipelines, upstream components are those that feed data into a particular process