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term

gRPC

A contract-first RPC framework using Protocol Buffers over HTTP/2, with generated clients and servers and first-class streaming.

API & Integration term

Deadline Exceeded

The error returned when a request's overall budget expires — semantically distinct from a per-hop timeout, and a signal that must not be retried blindly.

Timeouts & Deadlines term

Event-Driven Integration

Systems integrating by publishing and consuming events rather than by calling each other's APIs.

API & Integration term

OpenAPI

A machine-readable specification format for HTTP APIs, from which documentation, clients, servers, mocks and validation can be generated.

API & Integration term

REST

An architectural style for APIs built on resources identified by URLs, manipulated with uniform HTTP methods, and stateless requests.

API & Integration

quiz

You are designing APIs for a platform with a web app, a mobile app, internal service-to-service traffic and third-party partners. What do you expose, and where?

What the interviewer is testing Whether you choose per constraint or adopt one technology as an identity. The wrong answers here are all defensible sounding and

API & Integration

topic

gRPC APIs

Contract-first RPC, generated clients and protobuf compatibility rules.

API & Integration Architecture — no content yet topic

APIs as Products

Ownership, lifecycle, deprecation policy and developer experience.

API & Integration Architecture — no content yet topic

gRPC Transport

HTTP/2 multiplexing, binary encoding and streaming semantics.

Networking — no content yet