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]
Authorization
The act of verifying that an authenticated computer system user is allowed access. See Authentication. [Wikipedia link]
Cloud Computing
The on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the 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 Warehouse
A central repository of integrated data from one or more disparate sources. [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]
OAuth
An open standard for internet client authorization that uses access tokens, issued from an authorization server, rather than passwords. [Wikipedia link]
OpenAPI Specification (OAS)
A standard, language-agnostic interface to HTTP APIs. [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]
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]
Webhook
A web-based (HTTP) callback function that allows event-driven communication between two APIs. [Wikipedia link]