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Browse the most commonly used Software Development terms and definitions.

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A

Acceptance Testing

Testing•3 resources

ACID

System Design•6 resources

API (Application Programming Interface)

Backend•1 resources

Availability

System Design•8 resources

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B

Backend Development

General Development•6 resources

Browser DevTools

Frontend•2 resources

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C

Caching

System Design•25 resources

CAP Theorem

System Design•1 resources

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Programming Languages•3 resources

CI/CD (Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment)

DevOps•1 resources

Client-Side vs Server-Side Rendering

Frontend•0 resources

Concurrency

System Design•1 resources

Containerization

DevOps•0 resources

Content Delivery Networks (CDN)

Networking•0 resources

Cron Jobs

Backend•0 resources

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)

Security•0 resources

CSS Grid

Frontend•0 resources

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D

Database

System Design•64 resources

Database Normalization

Databases•0 resources

DDoS Attacks

Security•0 resources

Debugging

Programming•4 resources

Docker

DevOps•4 resources

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E

Event-Driven Architecture

System Design•0 resources

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F

Frontend Development

Frontend•16 resources

Functional Programming

Programming•0 resources

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G

Git

DevOps•1 resources

Github

DevOps•0 resources

GraphQL

Backend•0 resources

GraphQL vs REST

Backend•0 resources

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H

HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

General Development•4 resources

• • •

I

Images

General Development•6 resources

Indexing in Databases

Databases•0 resources

• • •

J

JavaScript

General Development•13 resources

JWT (JSON Web Token)

Backend•0 resources

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L

Lazy Loading

Frontend•0 resources

Load Balancing

Networking•1 resources

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M

Machine Learning

General Development•0 resources

Message Queues (RabbitMQ & Kafka)

Backend•0 resources

Microservices

System Design•4 resources

Microservices Architecture

System Design•1 resources

Monorepos

DevOps•0 resources

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N

NextJS

General Development•4 resources

NodeJS

General Development•0 resources

NoSQL Databases

Databases•3 resources

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O

OAuth

Security•0 resources

OAuth 2.0

Security•0 resources

Observability

DevOps•0 resources

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P

Pair Programming

General Development•0 resources

Progressive Web Apps (PWA)

Frontend•0 resources

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Q

QA (Quality Assurance)

Testing•0 resources

• • •

R

Rate Limiting

Networking•1 resources

React Hooks

Frontend•0 resources

react JS

General Development•5 resources

Relational Database

Databases•2 resources

REST vs GraphQL

Backend•0 resources

RESTful APIs

Backend•1 resources

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S

Scalability

General Development•9 resources

Server-Side Rendering

General Development•1 resources

Software Testing

Testing•0 resources

State Management

Frontend•0 resources

System Design

General Development•29 resources

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T

TypeScript

Programming Languages•1 resources

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U

Unit Testing

Testing•0 resources

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V

Virtual DOM

General Development•2 resources

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W

Web Performance Optimization

Frontend•0 resources

Web3

Blockchain•0 resources

WebAssembly (WASM)

Frontend•0 resources

WebSockets

Backend•1 resources

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X

XML (Extensible Markup Language)

Data Formats•0 resources