Amazon S3 or Amazon Simple Storage Service

A service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides object storage through a web service interface. [Wikipedia link]


Authentication

The act of verifying the identity of a computer system user. [Wikipedia link]


Data Governance

Data Governance refers to all actions taken over the entire life-cycle of data to make sure that it is secure, accurate, private, available, and usable. [Wikipedia link]


Data Lake

A repository of data stored in its natural/raw format, usually object blobs or files. [Wikipedia link]


Data Warehouse

A central repository of integrated data from one or more disparate sources. [Wikipedia link]


Extensible Markup Language (XML)

A markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data. [Wikipedia link]


Extract, transform, load (ETL)

A three-phase process where data is extracted, transformed (cleaned, sanitized, scrubbed) and written (loaded) to a data destination. [Wikipedia link]


Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

An application-layer protocol for transmitting hypermedia documents, such as HTML. The foundation of the World Wide Web.[Wikipedia link]


JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

An open-standard file format and data interchange format that uses human-readable text to store and transmit data objects consisting of attribute–value pairs and arrays. [Wikipedia link]


JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

An open-standard file format and data interchange format that uses human-readable text to store and transmit data objects consisting of attribute–value pairs and arrays. [Wikipedia link]


JSON Web Token (JWT)

An open standard for authentication that uses a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)-encoded token to securely represent claims between two parties. Typically, the tokens are used to represent an identity and its associations, such as a user and role or group. [Wikipedia link]


JSON Web Token or JWT

An open standard for Authentication that uses a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)-encoded token to securely represent claims between two parties. Typically, the tokens are used to represent an identity and its associations, such as a user and role or group. [Wikipedia link]


OpenAPI Specification (OAS)

A standard, language-agnostic interface to HTTP APIs. [Wikipedia link]


Perl

An interpreted computer programming language written by Larry Wall, primarily for text data processing. Often referred to as the "system admin's Swiss-army chainsaw." [Wikipedia link]


Representational State Transfer (REST)

A software architectural style that was created to guide the design and development of the architecture for the World Wide Web. [Wikipedia link]


Request-Response

One of the basic methods computers use to communicate with each other in a network, in which the first computer sends a request for some data and the second responds to the request. [Wikipedia link]


Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)

A messaging protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of web services in computer networks. [Wikipedia link]


Structured Query Language (SQL)

A standard language for storing, manipulating and retrieving data in relational databases. [Wikipedia link]


Swagger

An older specification upon which the OpenAPI Specification (OAS) specification is based. [Wikipedia link]


Tableau

A visual analytics and business intelligence software program. [Wikipedia link]


Technical Debt

The implied cost of future reworking that will be needed when using an easy-but-limited solution instead of a better approach that would take more time. [Wikipedia link]


Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)

A unique sequence of characters that identifies a logical or physical resource used by web technologies, such as a standard web address (http://wisc.edu). [Wikipedia link]


Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

A unique sequence of characters that identifies a logical or physical resource used by web technologies, such as a standard web address (http://wisc.edu). Although URL is a specific type of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), the terms are often used interchangeably. [Wikipedia link]


User Interface (UI)

The space where interactions between humans and machines occur. [Wikipedia link]


Web API

An application programming interface (API) for either a web server or a web browser. [Wikipedia link]


Webhook

A web-based (HTTP) callback function that allows event-driven communication between two APIs. [Wikipedia link]