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Rest API – What Is a Rest API?

What Is a Rest API? A REST API (commonly known as a RESTful API) is a sort of application interface (API or web API) that follows the restrictions of the REST organizational approach and facilitates interaction with RESTful web services.  Short for representational state transfer, REST was created by software engineer Roy Fielding. What Is Rest API and how it works? It’s not a protocol or a…
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Real Time IP—What is Real-time IP?

What is Real-time IP? Both TCP and UDP are built on top of Internet Protocol (IP). The Real-time IP delivers streaming of audio and video over the internet by enabling Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP). Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) designed Real-time IP (RTP) for…
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Quotes – What Are Quotes?

What Are Currency Quotes? In foreign exchange terms, a pair of currencies are quoted against each other.  The base is the first listed currency in a currency pair, whereas the quote is the second listed currency, the benchmark.  Currency pairs are intended to be compared to determine how much of the quote currency we need to purchase one unit of the base currency.  Therefore, a three-letter…
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Public IP Address - What is Public IP Address?

What is Public IP Address? You are likely aware that an IP address is a number in the format aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd. It is this IP address that devices use to communicate with other devices over the Internet. Thus, public IP addresses are those permanent/unique IP addresses…
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Private IP Address – What Is a Private IP Address?

A private IP address is a non-routable address of your device assigned by the network router. Every device connected to the same network has a private IP or network address. An IP address allows devices connected over the same network to communicate.  What Is a Private IP…
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Ping - What is Ping?

What is Ping? Ping is a command-line application that checks if a networked device is accessible and is available on practically any operating system with network connectivity.  It delivers a request to a particular device via the network.  The machine pinged back to the original computer and responded to a successful ping. Ping “Packet Internet Groper” is a technique for determining latency…
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Parameters– What Is Parameter?

What is Parameter?  A parameter is a variable used in computer programming to refer to one of the pieces of data presented as an “input” to a procedure.  These are the values of the arguments (also known as actual arguments or actual parameters) that will be…
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Multiple Location – What Is Multiple Location

What are multiple locations? Multiple Locations uses digital media to locate something, typically on a map-like interface.  With the development of Google Maps, Google Earth, Bing Maps, and a slew of other applications over the last decade, we’ve seen some significant…
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Metadata

What is metadata?  Metadata is a set of information that helps identify datasets, providing details and context to describe that particular data better.  It is an integral part of online content and data management which helps people select specific keywords when searching online and allows creators to tag their content to be easily indexed and captured by search engines and website usage…
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