A lightweight data-interchange format that is easy for humans to read and write, and easy for machines to parse and generate.
"JSON is commonly used for transmitting data in web applications between clients and servers."
a type of cyber attack where multiple compromised computer systems attack a target, such as a server, website, or other network resource, causing a denial of service for users of the targeted resource.
"A DDoS attack can overwhelm the targeted server with requests, making the website or service unavailable to legitimate users."
A data type composed of a number that is not an integer, because it includes a fraction represented in decimal format.
"In programming, `3.14` is a float value that represents an approximation of pi."
A positional numeral system with a radix, or base, of 16, using sixteen distinct symbols, typically the numbers 0 to 9 to represent values zero to nine, and the letters A to F (or a to f) to represent values ten to fifteen.
"Hexadecimal is widely used in computing and digital electronics as a human-friendly representation of binary-coded values."
A design principle in software engineering where the control flow of a program is inverted in comparison to traditional procedural programming.
"Inversion of control is often achieved through the use of frameworks, where the framework calls user-defined code rather than the user's code calling the framework."
