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API Design

The process of defining interfaces for software components to communicate with each other effectively.

Caching

Storing frequently accessed data in a fast-access storage layer to reduce latency and improve performance.

Idempotency

The property where an operation produces the same result regardless of how many times it is executed.

Circuit Breaker Pattern

A design pattern that prevents cascading failures by stopping calls to a failing service temporarily.

Concurrency

The ability of a system to handle multiple tasks simultaneously by interleaving their execution.

Parallelism

The simultaneous execution of multiple computations across multiple processors or cores.

The systematic application of engineering principles to the design, development, testing, and maintenance of software.

A software practice where code changes can be released to production at any time through automated pipelines.

A database structured to recognise relations among stored items, organised in tables with rows and columns.

A sequential software development methodology where each phase must be completed before the next begins.

A distributed version control system for tracking changes in source code during software development.

A reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem within a given context in software design.

A communication protocol providing full-duplex communication channels over a single persistent TCP connection.

A type of resource leak where a program fails to release memory that is no longer needed.

API

Application Programming Interface — a set of protocols and tools for building and integrating software applications.