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61 definitions across mobile, AI, real-money gaming, auctions, fintech and platform engineering.
AI agent
An AI agent is an LLM system that can autonomously plan and execute multi-step tasks using tools.
AML (Anti-Money Laundering)
AML is the set of controls that detect and prevent money laundering across financial products.
Anti-snipe (auctions)
Anti-snipe extends an auction's close time whenever a bid arrives near the end, preventing last-second wins.
Class II gaming
Class II gaming refers to bingo and pull-tab games where outcomes are determined by a shared central bingo draw.
Class III gaming
Class III gaming covers casino-style games such as slots, blackjack and roulette where outcomes are generated by a certified RNG.
Class III slots
Class III slots are traditional casino slot machines that use a certified RNG to determine outcomes.
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is Anthropic's mid-tier frontier model with strong tool use and long-context reasoning.
ClaudeBot
ClaudeBot is Anthropic's crawler for content used in Claude's answers and training.
Core Web Vitals
Core Web Vitals are Google's user-experience metrics: LCP, INP and CLS.
DFS (Daily Fantasy Sports)
Daily Fantasy Sports are short-duration fantasy contests, typically lasting a single day's or week's games.
E-E-A-T
E-E-A-T stands for Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness and Trustworthiness — Google's quality framework.
EAS Update
EAS Update is Expo's over-the-air update service for React Native apps.
Edge runtime
Edge runtimes run code on globally distributed CDN nodes close to the user.
Embedding
An embedding is a dense numerical vector representation of text (or image / audio) that captures semantic meaning.
Expo
Expo is a framework and platform for React Native that handles builds, updates and native tooling.
Fastify
Fastify is a high-performance Node.js web framework focused on speed and schema validation.
Feature flags
Feature flags are runtime switches that turn code paths on or off without a redeploy.
Fine-tuning
Fine-tuning adapts a pretrained LLM to a specific task or style by continuing training on a smaller labelled dataset.
Gemini 3
Gemini 3 is Google's frontier multimodal LLM family.
GLI-19
GLI-19 is a Gaming Laboratories International standard for interactive gaming systems used across regulated real-money gaming.
Google-Extended
Google-Extended is the robots.txt token Google uses to control content used for Bard / Gemini training.
GPT-5
GPT-5 is OpenAI's frontier large language model as of 2026.
GPTBot
GPTBot is the crawler OpenAI uses to gather content for training and search.
Header bidding
Header bidding is a programmatic ad-tech technique where publishers request bids from multiple SSPs in parallel before the ad server call.
HIPAA
HIPAA is the U.S. federal law protecting sensitive patient health information.
In-play (live) betting
In-play betting is placing wagers on a sporting event after it has started, with continuously updating odds.
Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR)
ISR statically generates pages at build time and revalidates them on demand or on a schedule.
IndexNow
IndexNow is a push-notification protocol that lets sites instantly notify Microsoft Bing, Yandex and other engines about URL changes.
Jetpack Compose
Jetpack Compose is Google's declarative UI toolkit for building native Android apps.
JSON-LD
JSON-LD is the JSON-based schema.org format used to embed structured data in web pages for search and AI.
KYC (Know Your Customer)
KYC is the process of verifying a user's identity — required by regulators for financial and gaming products.
LiveKit
LiveKit is an open-source WebRTC SFU used to build scalable real-time audio and video apps.
LLM (Large Language Model)
An LLM is a neural network trained on large text corpora to predict tokens and generate coherent language.
llms.txt
llms.txt is a proposed convention where sites publish a plain-text summary optimised for LLM consumption.
Nano Banana
Nano Banana is Google's image-generation model available via the Gemini API.
Next.js App Router
The App Router is Next.js's file-system-based routing and rendering system built on React Server Components.
OpenGraph
OpenGraph is the meta-tag protocol used to control how a URL previews on social platforms.
OpenTelemetry (OTel)
OpenTelemetry is the open standard for distributed tracing, metrics and logs.
PCI DSS
PCI DSS is the payment-card industry security standard that governs handling of credit-card data.
PerplexityBot
PerplexityBot is the crawler Perplexity uses to build its answer index.
pgvector
pgvector is a Postgres extension that adds vector similarity search directly inside Postgres.
Programmatic SEO (PSEO)
Programmatic SEO is the technique of generating a large number of unique, keyword-targeted pages from structured data.
Prompt caching
Prompt caching stores the prefix of a prompt at the provider so repeat requests skip recomputing it.
Proxy bidding
Proxy bidding lets a user set a maximum bid; the auction system incrementally bids on their behalf up to that limit.
RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
RAG is an LLM architecture where the model retrieves relevant documents from an external index before generating an answer.
React Server Components
Server Components render on the server and stream to the client, reducing bundle size and enabling data access at render time.
Responsible gaming
Responsible gaming is the set of tools and policies that help players stay in control and identify problem behaviour.
RNG (Random Number Generator)
An RNG is a certified algorithm producing statistically random outcomes used to determine casino-style gaming results.
Row-Level Security (RLS)
RLS is a Postgres feature that filters rows returned to a query based on the current user or tenant.
RTB (Real-Time Bidding)
RTB is the programmatic ad auction that runs in milliseconds for every ad impression.
Schema.org
Schema.org is the shared vocabulary for structured data on the web.
SEO
SEO is the practice of optimising a site to earn traffic from search engines.
Server-drawn bingo
Server-drawn bingo is a Class II gaming model where the central bingo server determines the draw and cabinets display the result.
Sportsbook
A sportsbook is a platform that accepts bets on sporting events at fixed odds.
Stripe Connect
Stripe Connect is Stripe's platform product for splitting payments and paying out to third parties.
SwiftUI
SwiftUI is Apple's declarative UI framework for building apps across all Apple platforms.
Tool calling
Tool calling is the LLM capability to invoke external functions in a structured, machine-parseable way.
Vector database
A vector database is a storage engine that indexes embeddings for similarity search.
Web Vitals
Web Vitals is Google's initiative for measuring real-user page-experience metrics.
WebRTC
WebRTC is a browser standard for peer-to-peer real-time audio, video and data.
XML Sitemap
A sitemap is an XML file that lists a site's URLs so search engines can discover and crawl them.