Glossary

Backend-for-frontend.

Command-line interface.

A series of actions that ingest data from one or more sources and move it to a destination for storage and analysis.

The databases, APIs, and messages that fuel Hazelcast Flow.

Flow is a data gateway that automates the integration of microservices across your enterprise. Flow accelerates application development by connecting multiple data sources and APIs together, without having to write integration code.

Infrastructure as Code.

JSON Web Token, an open standard for transmitting information securely between parties as a JSON object.

Kubernetes (often abbreviated to K8s), an open-source system that manages and deploys containerized applications.

Mutual authentication (mTLS), a method that ensures the authenticity of the parties at each end of a network connection.

Mutation queries make changes; for example, in performing a task or updating a record.

OpenID Connect provider.

Out of Memory Error.

Proof Key for Code Exchange, an extension used in OAuth 2.0 to improve security for public clients.

Projections are a way of taking data from one place, and then transforming and combining it with other data sources.

A request built using Flow’s ability to retrieve and analyze data from different sources across an ecosystem. For example, a query might stitch three services together: a database, API and Kafka streaming data.

Security Assertion Markup Language identity provider (IdP) authenticates users and passes authentication data to a service provider.

A method of encoding data that allows software to discover and map data based upon its meaning rather than its structure.

Process of converting an object into a stream of bytes in order to store it or transmit it to memory, a database, or a file. Its main purpose is to save the state of an object so it can be recreated when needed. The reverse process is called deserialization.

Server-sent events.

Taxi is a simple query language for describing how data and APIs across an ecosystem relate to one another.

The practice of classifying and categorizing data.

A value that determines how long data is retained, before it is discarded from Flow’s internal cache.

A Flow Workspace is a collection of schemas, API specs and Taxi projects that describe data sources and provide a description of the data and capabilities they provide.

Web Services Description Language.