7 Standards

7.1 Unicode

Used for encoding text https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode

7.2 ISO8601/UTC

Used for dates and timestamps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Coordinated_Universal_Time_(UTC)

7.3 JSON

Used for exchanging data

JSON

7.4 JSON Schema

Used for specifying data models. Note that OpenAPI 3.1 has full support for JSON Schema http://json-schema.org/

7.5 REST

Used for implementing APIs

Representational state transferWikipedia

7.6 OpenAPI 3.1 (AKA Swagger)

Used for specifying and documenting APIs. https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/blob/master/versions/3.1.0.md Note that OpenAPI 3.1 supports inline JSONSchema for model definitions

7.7 Docker/Docker Compose/OCI Containers

Used for packaging building block components for deployment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docker_(software) https://www.docker.com/resources/what-container

7.8 QR code

Must be generated with the ISO/IEC 18004:2015 standard