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The Graph API is the core of Facebook Platform, enabling developers to read from and write data into Facebook. The Graph API presents a simple, consistent view of the Facebook social graph, uniformly representing objects in the graph (e.g., people, photos, events, and pages) and the connections between them (e.g., friend relationships, shared ...
In 2014, Firebase launched two products: Firebase Hosting [6] and Firebase Authentication. [7] This positioned the company as a mobile backend as a service. [citation needed] In October 2014, Firebase was acquired by Google. [8] A year later, in October 2015, Google acquired Divshot, an HTML5 web-hosting platform, to merge it with the Firebase ...
BaaS providers form a bridge between the frontend of an application and various cloud-based backends via a unified API and SDK. [3] Providing a consistent way to manage backend data means that developers do not need to redevelop their own backend for each of the services that their apps need to access, [10] potentially saving both time and ...
The Apache Thrift API client/server architecture. Thrift includes a complete stack for creating clients and servers. [9] The top part is generated code from the Thrift definition. From this file, the services generate client and processor codes. In contrast to built-in types, created data structures are sent as a
Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) is part of the Firebase platform, which is a cloud service model that automates backend development or a Backend-as-a-service (BaaS). After the Firebase company was acquired by Google in 2014, some Firebase platform products or technologies were integrated with Google’s existing services.
Web Authentication (WebAuthn) is a web standard published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] WebAuthn is a core component of the FIDO2 Project under the guidance of the FIDO Alliance . [ 4 ]
The server responds with the 401 "Unauthorized" response code, providing the authentication realm and a randomly generated, single-use value called a nonce. At this point, the browser will present the authentication realm (typically a description of the computer or system being accessed) to the user and prompt for a username and password.
An application programming interface (API) key is a secret unique identifier used to authenticate and authorize a user, developer, or calling program to an API. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Cloud computing providers such as Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services recommend that API keys only be used to authenticate projects, rather than human users.