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...
The Problem with Static Limits rust // 'Maximum 100 concurrent connections' let max_connections = 100; Static limits are a trap: - Set too high? Your system cr...
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...
If your system is a party, your microservices are the guests, and your clients are… well… clients. What an API Gateway Does An API Gateway is the person at the...
1️⃣ Rate Limiting ¿Qué es? Ponerle límites de velocidad a tu API. ¿Cómo funciona? Solo deja que un usuario haga X peticiones en cierto tiempo. ¿Cómo lo impleme...
Scraping Forums Without Getting Flagged I’ve spent years crawling through the cracks of forums—old, forgotten ones that still hum if you listen close, bleeding...
🔐 SMS‑based OTP is everywhere ⚠️ It is one of the most abused authentication mechanisms at scale. Most teams focus on how to send OTPs reliably. Very few stop...
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Introduction As a Data Engineer, you rarely work only with databases. Modern data pipelines frequently ingest data from REST APIs—whether it’s pulling data fro...
Let's be real for a second. Ideally, we'd all just pip install praw, grab an API key, and pull unlimited JSON data for our NLP projects or market research. That...
Introduction In the early days of the web each request went directly from a client to a server, allowing the server to read the TCP connection and know who was...
