Standard Glossary

Browse 6 standard terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

6 Standard Terms

JSON
JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a lightweight, text-based data interchange format that uses human-readable key-value pairs and ordered lists to...
OAuth
OAuth is an open standard for access delegation that allows users to grant third-party applications limited access to their accounts on another service without...
OpenAPI Specification
A language-agnostic standard for describing REST APIs in YAML or JSON format -- endpoints, parameters, request/response schemas, authentication, and examples....
OpenTelemetry
An open-source observability framework that provides a single set of APIs, SDKs, and tools for generating and collecting traces, metrics, and logs....
TOTP
Time-based One-Time Password — an algorithm that generates a short-lived password from a shared secret and the current time. The math behind those 6-digit...
Unicode
A universal character encoding standard that assigns a unique code point to every character in every writing system -- 154,000+ characters across 168 scripts....

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