Missing Terms Tracker

This file tracks terms that were referenced in cross-links but did not exist in the original APIs curriculum, and have now been officially generated and added.

  • IP Address & Port (Level 1)
  • DNS (Domain Name System) (Level 1)
  • TCP/IP (high-level) (Level 1)
  • SSL/TLS & the Handshake (Level 1)
  • Latency & Bandwidth (Level 1)
  • Idempotent vs Safe Methods (Level 2)
  • Content-Type & MIME Types (Level 2)
  • Content Negotiation (Accept) (Level 2)
  • URL Encoding (Percent-Encoding) (Level 2)
  • Resource Naming & URI Design (Level 3)
  • HATEOAS (Level 3)
  • Richardson Maturity Model (Level 3)
  • Session vs Token Authentication (Level 4)
  • Access Token vs Refresh Token (Level 4)
  • OAuth Scopes (Level 4)
  • Same-Origin Policy (Level 4)
  • Preflight Request (OPTIONS) (Level 4)
  • CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) (Level 4)
  • XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) (Level 4)
  • Secrets & Environment Variables (Level 4)
  • XMLHttpRequest / AJAX (Level 5)
  • Promise.all / Parallel Requests (Level 5)
  • Request Timeout (Level 5)
  • AbortController / Cancellation (Level 5)
  • Retry & Exponential Backoff (Level 5)
  • FormData & Multipart Uploads (Level 5)
  • CORS Errors in the Browser (Level 5)
  • Bulk / Batch Requests (Level 6)
  • Circuit Breaker (Level 6)
  • Idempotency Keys (Level 6)
  • Cache Invalidation (Level 6)
  • Deserialization / Parsing (Level 7)
  • Character Encoding (UTF-8) (Level 7)
  • Binary vs Text Formats (Level 7)
  • Blob & ArrayBuffer (Level 7)
  • Over-fetching vs Under-fetching (Level 7)
  • WebSocket Handshake (Upgrade) (Level 8)
  • Heartbeat / Ping-Pong (Level 8)
  • Reconnection & Backoff (Level 8)
  • Pub/Sub & Channels (Level 8)
  • Storage Serialization (Level 9)
  • Cookie Attributes (HttpOnly, Secure, SameSite) (Level 9)
  • Storage Limits & Eviction (Level 9)
  • Offline-First / PWA (Level 9)
  • DevTools Network Tab (Level 10)
  • API Contract / Schema-First Design (Level 10)
  • SDK / Client Library (Level 10)
  • Deprecation & Sunsetting (Level 10)
  • Microservices vs Monolith (Level 10)
  • API Gateway (Level 10)
  • Load Balancing (Level 10)
  • Protocol Buffers (protobuf) (Level 10)
  • SOAP & XML-RPC (legacy) (Level 10)
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