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• API Contract

  An API Contract is a formal, binding specification defining the endpoints, inputs, outputs, error conditions, and SLA guarantees agreed upon between API providers and consumers.
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• API Documentation

  API Documentation provides developer instructions on how to effectively integrate with and consume an API, including endpoint reference guides, tutorials, code samples, and authentication instructions.
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• API Gateway

  An API Gateway is a server component acting as a single entry point for client applications to route requests, enforce security, apply rate limits, and perform transformation tasks.
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• API Versioning

  API Versioning is the practice of managing changes to an API specification across multiple released iterations without breaking existing client integrations.
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B

• Bearer Token

  A Bearer Token is a security credential sent in the HTTP Authorization header (e.g. Authorization: Bearer <token>) granting access to protected API resources.
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H

• HTTP Status Code

  A 3-digit integer issued by a server in response to a client's HTTP request, indicating whether the request succeeded or failed.
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I

• Idempotency

  In HTTP APIs, an operation is idempotent if executing it multiple times with the same parameters produces the exact same side-effect state on the server as executing it a single time.
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J

• JSON Schema

  JSON Schema is a vocabulary that allows you to annotate and validate JSON data structures.
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O

• OAuth 2.0

  OAuth 2.0 is an industry-standard authorization framework enabling third-party applications to obtain limited access to user accounts without exposing user credentials.
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• OpenAPI Specification (OAS)

  The OpenAPI Specification (OAS) is an open-source, machine-readable standard format for defining, describing, consuming, and visualizing RESTful web services.
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P

• Pagination

  Pagination is the technique of breaking large result sets into discrete chunks or pages returned over successive API requests.
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• Rate Limiting

  Rate limiting restricts the number of API requests a client can make within a specified time window.
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• REST API

  A REST API lets clients read and change resources at URLs with standard HTTP methods and status codes, following the constraints of Roy Fielding's REST style.
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• Schema Validation

  Schema Validation is the automated process of checking whether a data structure matches a target JSON Schema or OpenAPI data model.
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• Swagger

  Swagger is a popular suite of open-source and commercial developer tools built around the OpenAPI Specification, including Swagger UI, Swagger Editor, and Swagger Codegen.
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