Technology
25 approved public terms in this category.
MCP
Brouillon de traduction automatique (French) for "MCP": Model Context Protocol - An open standard developed by Anthropic for connecting AI assistants to external tools, data sources, and services. Enables AI agents to interact with the world in standardized ways.
“Exemple en brouillon: Our platform exposes all its APIs via MCP so any AI assistant can integrate with it.”
Brouillon de traduction automatique (French) for "PlatPhorm": A next-generation media network built for the AI age, combining human creativity with machine intelligence. The PlatPhorm News Network connects sites, APIs, and agents through open standards like MCP, enabling seamless collaboration between humans and AI.
“Exemple en brouillon: PlatPhorm is redefining how news and knowledge are created, distributed, and discovered in the age of AI.”
Trace
Brouillon de traduction automatique (French) for "Trace": The PlatPhorm distributed observability and tracing service (trace.platphormnews.com) that records the journey of requests across the network graph. A trace is an end-to-end record of a single operation as it propagates through multiple services, enabling root-cause analysis of latency and errors.
“Exemple en brouillon: Check the trace dashboard to see exactly where the request slowed down across the network.”
Base
Brouillon de traduction automatique (French) for "Base": The foundational infrastructure layer of the PlatPhorm News Network (base.platphormnews.com). Base provides core shared services — authentication, storage, and routing — that all other network nodes depend on.
“Exemple en brouillon: All network nodes authenticate through Base before accessing protected resources.”
USL
Brouillon de traduction automatique (French) for "USL": Universal Schema Language — a PlatPhorm open standard (usl.platphormnews.com) for describing structured data in a way that both humans and AI agents can interpret. USL bridges JSON Schema, OpenAPI, and semantic web concepts into a single expressive format.
“Exemple en brouillon: The API documentation is generated automatically from the USL schema definition.”
Network Graph
Brouillon de traduction automatique (French) for "Network Graph": A machine-readable representation of all nodes, sites, and connections in the PlatPhorm News Network, available at platphormnews.com/api/network/graph. Each node describes a service, its capabilities, and its relationships to other nodes — enabling agents to discover and traverse the network programmatically.
“Exemple en brouillon: An AI agent queried the network graph to find the right service for emoji generation.”
WebFinger
Brouillon de traduction automatique (French) for "WebFinger": An open protocol (RFC 7033) for discovering information about people or resources using a simple HTTPS URI. WebFinger lets you look up who owns an account like acct:user@site.com and retrieve their public profile, keys, or social links without centralized login.
“Exemple en brouillon: The federated app used WebFinger to resolve the user's identity before sending them a message.”
PlatPhorm Docs
Brouillon de traduction automatique (French) for "PlatPhorm Docs": The PlatPhorm collaborative documentation network (docs.platphormnews.com) where definitions, API references, and guides are published and cross-linked across the network. Definitions submitted to the dictionary are automatically mirrored to PlatPhorm Docs.
“Exemple en brouillon: After submitting the definition, a docs article was automatically created at docs.platphormnews.com.”
PlatPhorm Polymaths
Brouillon de traduction automatique (French) for "PlatPhorm Polymaths": The PlatPhorm community hub for multi-disciplinary thinkers and creators (polymaths.platphormnews.com). PlatPhorm Polymaths profiles highlight contributors who span multiple fields, celebrating intellectual cross-pollination and the value of diverse expertise.
“Exemple en brouillon: She was featured on PlatPhorm Polymaths for her work bridging marine biology and machine learning.”
Open Network
Brouillon de traduction automatique (French) for "Open Network": A decentralized collection of interconnected sites, APIs, and agents that operate on shared open standards rather than proprietary lock-in. An open network allows any conforming node to join, participate, and be discovered without needing permission from a central authority.
“Exemple en brouillon: PlatPhorm is designed as an open network so third-party tools can plug in via MCP or standard REST APIs.”
PlatPhorm ASCII
Brouillon de traduction automatique (French) for "PlatPhorm ASCII": The PlatPhorm ASCII art service (ascii.platphormnews.com) that generates text-based visual representations of network concepts, logos, and diagrams. ASCII art from this service can be embedded in terminal outputs, markdown files, and LLM prompts.
“Exemple en brouillon: The CLI tool fetched the PlatPhorm ASCII logo to display in the terminal welcome screen.”
Webhook
Brouillon de traduction automatique (French) for "Webhook": A user-defined HTTP callback that fires automatically when a specific event occurs in a source system. Rather than polling an API repeatedly, webhooks push data to a listener URL the moment something happens — making integrations real-time and efficient.
“Exemple en brouillon: We set up a webhook so Slack gets notified instantly every time a new definition is published.”
Idempotency
Brouillon de traduction automatique (French) for "Idempotency": The property of an operation where performing it multiple times produces the same result as performing it once. Idempotent API endpoints are critical for safe retries — if a network error occurs, the client can re-send the request without fear of duplicating side effects like charges or database records.
“Exemple en brouillon: Pass an idempotency key with payment requests so retries don't charge the customer twice.”
Observability
Brouillon de traduction automatique (French) for "Observability": The ability to understand the internal state of a system from its external outputs — logs, metrics, and traces. A highly observable system lets engineers diagnose production issues, understand performance bottlenecks, and predict failures without needing to redeploy or add new instrumentation.
“Exemple en brouillon: Poor observability meant it took hours to find the root cause of the outage.”
Telemetry
Brouillon de traduction automatique (French) for "Telemetry": Automated collection and transmission of data about a system's performance, usage, and health to a remote monitoring service. Software telemetry typically includes metrics (CPU, latency), events (errors, deployments), and logs — giving operators a live picture of system behavior at scale.
“Exemple en brouillon: The telemetry data showed a spike in error rates 10 minutes before the outage was reported.”
Edge Computing
Brouillon de traduction automatique (French) for "Edge Computing": A computing paradigm that processes data at or near its source — at the "edge" of the network — rather than sending it all to a central cloud datacenter. Edge computing reduces latency, lowers bandwidth costs, and enables real-time processing for users around the globe.
“Exemple en brouillon: Serving the API from edge nodes cut response times from 200ms to 20ms for international users.”
Serverless
Brouillon de traduction automatique (French) for "Serverless": A cloud execution model where the provider manages server infrastructure automatically. Developers deploy individual functions that scale from zero to millions of invocations without provisioning or maintaining servers. "Serverless" doesn't mean no servers exist — just that you don't manage them.
“Exemple en brouillon: The app scaled to 100,000 concurrent users during the launch without any ops intervention, thanks to serverless.”
Rate Limiting
Brouillon de traduction automatique (French) for "Rate Limiting": A technique for controlling the frequency of requests a client can make to an API or service within a given time window. Rate limiting protects systems from abuse, prevents overload, and ensures fair resource allocation among consumers. Responses typically include headers indicating current usage and remaining quota.
“Exemple en brouillon: The API returned a 429 Too Many Requests error once rate limiting kicked in at 100 calls per minute.”
Open Standard
Brouillon de traduction automatique (French) for "Open Standard": A publicly available technical specification that anyone can implement, use, and extend without royalty obligations or proprietary restrictions. Open standards like HTTP, JSON, and OpenAPI enable interoperability between different vendors and communities, reducing lock-in and fostering innovation.
“Exemple en brouillon: MCP is an open standard, meaning any AI vendor can implement it to connect their models to tools.”
Latency
Brouillon de traduction automatique (French) for "Latency": The time delay between initiating an action and receiving the first response. In networking, latency is the round-trip time for a data packet; in AI, it often refers to time-to-first-token or end-to-end inference time. Lower latency means faster, more responsive user experiences.
“Exemple en brouillon: The new model has lower latency but slightly less accuracy — a classic speed/quality trade-off.”