Use for questions related to the Apache Kafka consumer API

`ctypes` is a Python package that wraps C .dll/.so libraries in pure Python.

The use of redundant resources to improve reliability, fault-tolerance, or performance.

Use this tag for issues related to handling advertisements programmatically. If using a specific technology such as AdMob or AdSense be sure to add the relevant tag too.

The clipboard is a software facility that can be used for short-term data storage and/or data transfer between documents or applications, via copy and paste operations.

Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) is a compiler feature that provides automatic memory management of Objective-C and Swift objects.

NSUserDefaults is the Objective-C API for storing and retrieving user preferences in Apple's Foundation framework for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch. It is available in OS X v10.0 and later and Available in iOS 2.0 and later which is inherited from NSObject root class

AFNetworking is a networking library for iOS and macOS available on GitHub and CocoaPods.

Distance is a numerical description of how far apart objects are.

A Common Table Expression (CTE) is a temporary result set that is defined within the execution scope of a single SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE statement. Formally named <with clause>, according to the ISO SQL standard.

"Message queue" is a design pattern or software engineering component that defines discipline or API for communication between two or more interrelated processes or systems. The message queue enforces asynchronous processing and loose coupling. Depending on the implementation they may also provide delivery and order guarantees of the messages. Message processing guarantees are explicitly excluded from the design.