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Ajax

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML - describes a pattern of web application development using JavaScript making communication requests and updating the page without full refresh. Traditionally data payloads were sent in XML, but today JSON tends to be used.

CORS

Cross Origin Resource Sharing ... blah blah blah

GraphQL

Blah blah blah

H2

Short-hand way of referencing HTTP version 2. Also an <h2> tag in HTML

JSON

JavaScript Object Notation is a stringified form of JavaScript data types that is used to transmit and store information for easy consumption by JavaScript. It is not unique to JavaScript for data interchange, but it is most commonly used with it.

Microservice

Blah blah blah

REST

Representation State Transfer ...

SOP

Same Origin Policy ... blah blah blah

SPDY

Pronounced Speedy ... a form of HTTP/2

User Agent

A device or program that makes HTTP requests, commonly a web browser such as Google Chrome, but may be a bot or other program. Derived from the User-Agent HTTP header.