Web services that conform to the REST architectural style, allowing requesting systems to access and manipulate web resources using stateless operations.

"RESTful web services enable interoperability between computer systems on the internet, making web services and APIs easier to work with."

The process of reducing dependencies between components of a system to increase modularity and flexibility.

"Decoupling allows for individual components to be developed, modified, and tested without affecting the rest of the system."

A placeholder name used in computer programming as a metasyntactic variable to represent abstract concepts and examples.

"Variables named 'foo' and 'bar' are commonly used in programming documentation and examples."

Computer object code that is processed by a program, usually referred to as a virtual machine, rather than by the ''real'' computer machine, the hardware processor.

"Java bytecode allows Java programs to be executed on any device equipped with a Java Virtual Machine (JVM)."

In programming, the ability to define multiple methods with the same name but different implementations, depending on their arguments.

"Method overloading allows for more intuitive code, where the same operation can be applied to different types of data."