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Stop Writing APIs Like It's 2015
We're in 2025, and many codebases still treat APIs as simple “endpoints that return JSON.” If your API design hasn’t evolved past basic CRUD routes, you’re sacr...
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Why Exposing Persistence Entities in APIs Is a Dangerous Shortcut
Example Controller java @PostMapping'/books' public BookItem create@RequestBody BookItem bookItem { return bookService.savebookItem; } Why It Felt Right - The...
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What breaks first when settling P2P skill-based matches across third-party games?
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Why Developers Struggle With Social Media Data (And How I’m Fixing It)
The Problem with Social Media Data Social media data powers many modern products — from analytics dashboards to AI pipelines and automation tools. On paper, mo...
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How I’d Become a Backend Developer in 2026 (If I Were Starting Today)
When I started my development journey, backend development felt confusing. Too many languages, too many frameworks, and every blog claimed something different w...
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Building Reusable UI in React: Compound Components, Render Props, and API Design
Reusable UI in React: From Prop‑Explosion to Compound Components Have you ever built a React component that started clean — and a couple of days later had a bi...
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🧠 Going Full Stack: Building the Backend & REST API
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🚀 GraphQL APIs Explained (With Real Node.js Examples)
REST is everywhere… but GraphQL is changing how modern APIs are built. In this post you’ll learn: - What GraphQL really is - How it works without jargon - A rea...
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Why I Cache External API Data Instead of Calling It Every Time
Initial Approach When I first started integrating external APIs into my projects, my approach was simple: Need data? Call the API. It felt clean and logical—un...
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Understanding oneOf in OpenAPI (Without the Confusion)
Introduction When designing APIs with OpenAPI, oneOf often looks intimidating. It’s powerful, but easy to misuse—especially with PATCH endpoints. Let’s break i...
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REST vs. GraphQL: Choosing the Right API Architecture
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Collecting Real Tourism Listings and Prices at Scale: A Developer’s Guide to Geo-Accurate Data Aggregation
The Geo‑Context Challenge in Tourism Data Aggregation If you’ve ever tried to aggregate data from global travel platforms—Booking.com, Airbnb, Agoda, Expedia—y...