Glossary

The words, without the shrug

Every term the courses use, defined in one line and then in a paragraph. Written to be read out of order.

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Deliverability

Infrastructure

Whether the mail you send reaches an inbox at all.

Sending is your side of it; delivering is the receiving provider’s decision, taken in a fraction of a second on the strength of what your domain says about you. Nothing in your code reports a failure here, which is why it is normally discovered by somebody who never got their password reset.

See also DNS, Transactional email, Bounce

Deprecation

Backend

Announcing that something will be removed.

Marking a field or endpoint as going away while still supporting it, so callers have time to move. Only meaningful if you can measure who is still using it.