markdown The Pain of Building E‑Commerce From Scratch There's a specific kind of pain that only developers who've built e‑commerce from scratch truly understand...
Introduction As enterprises grow, they rely on multiple systems such as ERPs, CRMs, cloud platforms, mobile apps, and partner services. Connecting all these sy...
What is REST? REST Representational State Transfer is a set of rules for designing APIs. Bad API examples - /getUser - /fetchAllPosts - /doLogin Good REST API...
Quick question Is a DELETE endpoint that returns 404 on subsequent calls idempotent? If you said no because the response changed, this article is for you. Idem...
Why Duplicate Webhooks Happen Payment gateways e.g., Worldpay, Stripe intentionally retry webhook calls when: - Your endpoint times out - They don’t receive a...
Introduction A recent LinkedIn post discussed using query parameters to request alternate representations of a resource. The idea is to project only the needed...
Introduction Today, most applications—whether a SaaS product, a mobile app, or an enterprise integration platform—do not work in isolation. They constantly sen...
There is a special kind of stupidity in APIs that doesn’t look dangerous — just mildly annoying. Remove the Authorization header. Send the request again. If you...
An important part of my job is to collect and distill feedback into recommendations for product and engineering teams. It isn’t as glamorous as traveling the wo...
Motivation for Switching - Too many REST endpoints for related data - Frontend constantly asking for response‑shape changes - Over‑fetching on mobile - Under‑f...
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OPTIONS method issues OPTIONS is the HTTP method nobody cares about. Which is exactly why it keeps biting teams in production. When an API answers a perfectly...
