Glossary

API

An acronym for the term Application Programming Interface, which refers to an interface that allows two applications to talk to one another. More recently, the term has been used as a shorthand for a Web API, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_API for further details.

AI

An acronym for the term Artificial Intelligence.

AML

An acronym for the term Adversarial Machine Learning.

GHCR

An acronym for the GitHub Container Registry that hosts container images.

GUI

An acronym for the term Graphical User Interface.

HTTP

An acronym for the term Hypertext Transfer Protocol, which are a set of rules that control the way data is sent and received over the internet. The HTTP specification is available at https://httpwg.org/specs/.

JSON

An acronym for the term JavaScript Object Notation. JSON is a lightweight data-interchange format that is completely language independent despite being based on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language Standard ECMA-262 3rd Edition - December 1999. For more information, see https://www.json.org.

ML

An acronym for the term Machine Learning.

REST

An acronym for REpresentational State Transfer, which is an architectural approach to designing web services proposed by Roy Fielding in 2000. For more information, see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/best-practices/api-design#what-is-rest.

SDK

An acronym for the term Software Development Kit, which refers to a collection of software development tools in one installable package.

URI

An acronym for the term Uniform Resource Identifier, which is a unique sequence of characters that identifies a logical or physical resource used by web technologies. For more information, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier.

UUID

An acronym for the term Universally Unique IDentifier, which is a 128-bit label used for information in computer systems. When generated according to the standard methods, UUIDs are, for practical purposes, unique. For more information, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier.

YAML

An acronym for the term YAML Ain’t Markup Language. YAML is a human friendly data serialization standard for all programming languages. For more information, see https://yaml.org.