Performance and scalability determine how fast your application can serve a page and to how many users at a time.

Twig is a template engine for PHP, which is the language used in Drupal. Twig can be used to design templates in generic PHP applications as well as Drupal themes.

PHP namespaces provide a way in which to group related classes, interfaces, functions and constants. Drupal uses PSR-4 namespaces to autoload the correct PHP class from a file, accommodating variations in site structures.

Web services allow two or more applications to share data and instructions with one another across the Internet.