A server that acts as a single entry point for a set of microservices, handling request routing, authentication, and rate limiting.

A digitally signed credential used to verify identity and grant access to protected resources without re-entering credentials.

A serverless function that runs at CDN edge locations close to users, reducing latency for dynamic content generation.

The process of attaching event listeners and state to server-rendered HTML on the client, making static markup interactive.

Object-Relational Mapping translates between database rows and programming language objects, providing type-safe query building.