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MA Mabrouk Mahdhi

My Microsoft MVP Desk Ring Accidentally Became a Lesson in Distributed Systems

A few days ago, Microsoft renewed my MVP award for another year.

Jul 20, 2026 · 4 min read · 50 claps #microsoft-mvp #distributed-systems #backend-development

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MR Mário M. Mabande

GraphQL vs REST: When to Choose Each and Why It Matters

A practical guide for developers who need to choose an API architecture and want more than surface-level comparisons

Jul 20, 2026 · 9 min read · 0 claps #graphql #rest-api #web-services

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MR Mridul Singh · Stackademic

HTTP APIs Explained Like You’re Building a Real Backend

Real backend engineers design them as contracts not as endpoints.

Jul 06, 2026 · 12 min read · 65 claps #system-design-concepts #api-design #backend-development

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MA Martin Tien · JavaScript in Plain English

Designing Zero-Bug Checkout APIs: Handling Race Conditions with SDD

📚 This Article Series: Part 5 of a 10-week sequence on Advanced Architecture & AI Automation — securing critical API transactions with…

Jul 05, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #api-design #spec-driven-development #integration-testing

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SA Sarah Morris O’Keefe

The Developer Experience Checklist Nobody Actually Publishes

Good DX gets developers in the door. Here’s what keeps them.

Jun 23, 2026 · 7 min read · 20 claps #developer-experience #developer-relations #devrel

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SA Sagar Taneja · Analyst’s corner

The Business Analyst’s Guide to API Cost Thinking

I was in a design review meeting last week when my director said something that stopped me mid-thought.

Jun 18, 2026 · 5 min read · 0 claps #api #business-analysis #business-analyst

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KA Kate Apideck · Apideck

API Design Principles for the Agentic Era

For 15 years, developer experience meant optimizing for humans at a terminal. That model is increasingly incomplete. A growing share of API…

Jun 18, 2026 · 20 min read · 0 claps #api-design #api-integration #software-integration

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DI Dinuka Subasinghe · Axonect Blog

How API Rate Limiting Prevents System Failures

Introduction

Jun 17, 2026 · 2 min read · 0 claps #api-design #devops

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YA Yashpal

OAuth 2.0 –The Only Guide You Need

No passwords shared. No master keys handed out. Here’s how it actually works.

Jun 16, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #oauth #oauth2 #security

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AN Ananyaa

I Built Authentication Three Times Before I Understood It

The mistakes that taught me how modern authentication actually works.

Jun 16, 2026 · 4 min read · 4 claps #authentication #web-security #backend-development

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TI Timofey Semenenko

We Didn’t Scale the API. We Scaled Understanding of the System.

The hardest scaling problem isn’t infrastructure. It’s keeping everyone aligned on how the system actually works.

Jun 15, 2026 · 4 min read · 4 claps #software-development #software-engineering #software-architecture

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RU Ruslan Gilmullin

Seven arrows, 429 trees: a Mermaid cleanup uncovered a 7-year naming bug

Two Turing machines walked into a diagram. They had the same name.

Jun 15, 2026 · 8 min read · 0 claps #api-design #refactoring #catalan

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SU Sunny Agarwal

The Infrastructure Trifecta: Reverse Proxy, Load Balancer & API Gateway Explained

I’ve interviewed hundreds of engineers. I can tell within five minutes whether someone really understands distributed systems — or whether…

Jun 14, 2026 · 19 min read · 12 claps #distributed-systems #infrastructure #load-balancing

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FA Farhad Adeli

Why should your API not return database models directly?

Backend interview question:

Jun 14, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #software-engineering #backend-development #full-stack-development

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IN inside Nikita's Mind

Forgot JSON — These 4 Data Formats Made My API 5x Faster (And Changed How I Think About…

Our main customer-facing API was hitting 800ms p95 latency under normal load. Customers were complaining. The backend team was exhausted…

Jun 13, 2026 · 2 min read · 5 claps paywalled #api-design #performance #protobuf

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HU Husni Haniffa

Implementing Rate Limiting in Node.js + Express + TypeScript

Practical Guide

Jun 12, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #rate-limiting #api-rate-limiting #backend-development

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PE Petr Pátek

Claude Fable 5 works for days without you. Your software isn’t ready.

On June 9, 2026, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, the first publicly available model from its Mythos class, the tier that sits above…

Jun 10, 2026 · 9 min read · 0 claps #ai-agent #software-architecture #api-design

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AN Android Expert · Stackademic

Navigating the Android Upgrade Tightrope: A Masterclass in App Updates & Backward Compatibility

How to architect production-grade update strategies using feature flags, capability-based code, and zero-downtime database migrations.

Jun 09, 2026 · 7 min read · 2 claps paywalled #android-development #mobile-architecture #kotlin

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CA Carole Chevalier 🇫🇷

Quand votre API commence à façonner votre produit : le piège discret de JSON:API

On ne choisit presque jamais JSON:API pour de mauvaises raisons. Mais ce sont rarement les raisons qui posent problème.

Jun 09, 2026 · 8 min read · 0 claps #api-design #software-architecture #rest-api

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VI Vishad Patel · Stackademic

Reading the Stripe MCP : What Production Servers Get Right

Seven Design Patterns from Stripe You Should Steal Today

Jun 09, 2026 · 18 min read · 0 claps paywalled #mcp-server #spring-ai #stripe

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CO CodeTune · Skill Stuff

7 API Design Mistakes I Would Never Repeat

Bad API design does not usually fail on day one. It fails when real clients, real users, and real edge cases start depending on your weak…

Jun 09, 2026 · 8 min read · 0 claps #api-design #backend-development #software-engineering

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AN ANSHUMAN SAHAY

How Websites Keep You Logged In

How do websites securely communicate with servers and remember who I am after I log in?

Jun 08, 2026 · 8 min read · 0 claps #system-design-interview #api-design #backend-development

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AN Anas Issath · Level Up Coding

API Versioning in Practice: How to Change Everything Without Breaking Anything

Your API has users. Now every change is a negotiation.

Jun 08, 2026 · 9 min read · 94 claps paywalled #django #fastapi #rest-api

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WA Wanuja Ranasinghe · Dev Genius

20 API Design Best Practices Every Backend Engineer Should Know

Good API design is about creating APIs that are easy to understand, consistent, secure, scalable, and maintainable. Here are the most…

Jun 07, 2026 · 3 min read · 1 claps paywalled #api-design #software-design #performance-optimization

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KU Kuldeep Modh

Pagination Strategies: Choosing the Right Way to Slice Big Data

How to choose between offset pagination, cursor pagination, time-based pagination, search pagination, and client-side pagination without…

Jun 07, 2026 · 12 min read · 0 claps #software-engineering #pagination #backend-development

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HA Hayk Simonyan · Level Up Coding

How to Design APIs Like a Senior Engineer (REST, GraphQL, Auth, Security)

1. Understanding the API’s Core Purpose

Jun 05, 2026 · 5 min read · 63 claps #software-engineering #api-design #design-systems

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KH Khpanchotiya

Introduction to Backend Engineering: API Design and Architecture

When people think about software development, they often imagine beautiful websites and mobile applications. However, behind every…

Jun 02, 2026 · 4 min read · 1 claps #api-design #rest-api #backend-engineering

ED Eda Kaş

DTO Nedir?

Data Transfer Object

May 31, 2026 · 5 min read · 12 claps paywalled #java #dto #data-transfer-object

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PR Priyanshu Thapliyal

GSoC Week 1: When Small Frontend Bugs Exposed Bigger API Questions

My first coding week on VideoLAN (VLC) CrashDragon was not about writing a big feature.

May 30, 2026 · 7 min read · 1 claps #gsoc #vlc #go

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AP ApplexX

gRPC in the Real World: How I Used It to Connect the Brain of Cortexa

I promised you this one. In my last article on API Design & Architecture, I briefly touched on gRPC — just enough to introduce it, not…

May 29, 2026 · 10 min read · 5 claps #grpc #api-design #design-systems

ME MEsfandiari

Stop Returning Generic 400 Errors: The Senior Developer’s Guide to RFC 7807 (Problem Details) in…

We’ve all been there. You’re integrating with a third-party API, you send a payload, and you get this highly “helpful” response back:

May 28, 2026 · 2 min read · 0 claps #spring-boot #rest-api #error-handling

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TH The Codesetta Stone

The Mechanics of Error Copy

A look into the right way to keep things running, both for software and automobiles.

May 27, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #ux-writing #technical-writing #developer-experience

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AY Ayush Tyagi

API Best Practices and Design Patterns

Modern applications rely heavily on APIs for communication between services, mobile applications, web platforms, and third-party…

May 26, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #api #design-systems #api-design

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SU Sujatha Iyer

Fintech Strategist Sujatha Iyer on Why Thoughtful Systems Design Is Key to Real-World Innovation in…

Fintech Strategist Sujatha Iyer on Why Thoughtful Systems Design Is Key to Real-World Innovation in Finance

May 25, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #fintech #product-management #open-banking

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AL Alex

The API Design Principles Nobody Teaches You Until It’s Too Late

I’ve broken production APIs. Not because of bad code — the code was fine. Tests passed. PR got approved. Deploy went smooth. And then…

May 25, 2026 · 9 min read · 0 claps #api-design #api-design-principles #software-testing

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SA Satyajeet Bansode · AWS in Plain English

Why Your REST APIs Are Bad (And How to Fix Them Fast)

Your API is not slow. It is confusing.

May 22, 2026 · 3 min read · 51 claps #rest-api #backend-development #software-engineering

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RU Ruslan Gilmullin

A pause with two sides: the hook contract and the worker protocol

Suppose you’re writing a Turing-machine interpreter that runs in a Web Worker. The UI needs to show a trace — how the machine steps from…

May 21, 2026 · 9 min read · 0 claps #javascript #webworker #api-design

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DE Designing Systems at Scale

We carry 6 API versions and it costs 1.5 engineers

I was in a 2AM incident debrief when someone finally asked the question out loud: how many versions are we actually maintaining right now?

May 20, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #software-architecture #software-engineering #api-design

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HA Hamrix

API Design: Hard-Won Lessons from a Decade in the Trenches

What nobody tells you about REST, versioning, contracts, and the slow-moving disasters that only reveal themselves years after you ship.

May 19, 2026 · 18 min read · 1 claps #rest-api #api-design #api-development

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RU Ruslan Gilmullin

Two majors, one README, one demo: two cheap design reviews

Writing the docs is what surfaced both mistakes. There’s a meta-lesson in there about how docs are the cheapest design review you can run…

May 18, 2026 · 5 min read · 0 claps #api-design #software-engineering #documentation

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JU Juan Francisco Herrero

The Art of the Extensible Response: why your GETs should never return an array

full post: https://juanfraherrero.substack.com/p/the-art-of-the-extensible-response

May 18, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #api-design #software-architecture #typescript

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JU Juan Francisco Herrero

El arte de la response extensible: por qué tus GET nunca deberían devolver un array

full post: https://juanfraherrero.substack.com/p/el-arte-de-la-response-extensible

May 18, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #api-design #software-architecture

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ZA Zainab Alayande

API Design Beyond Endpoints: How Your API Travels Through the Internet

You have probably been in an interview where the interviewer smiles and says: “Relax, this is going to be conversational.”

May 18, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #api-design #graphql-vs-rest #system-design-interview

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HA Hamrix

RPC vs REST Which Should You Use? (And When You’re Choosing Wrong)

A technical deep-dive into two architectural philosophies that power the modern internet and why most teams reach for the wrong one.

May 17, 2026 · 5 min read · 6 claps #software-architecture #remote-procedure-calls #api-design

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TA Tarxemo

REST vs GraphQL vs gRPC: Which API Style Should You Actually Use in 2026?

REST vs GraphQL vs gRPC: Which API Style Should You Actually Use in 2026?

May 16, 2026 · 4 min read · 2 claps #backend-development #api-design #microservices

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LY Lycore

The API-First Mindset: How to Build Software That Doesn’t Trap You

Every software project starts with ambition and ends, eventually, with a constraint. Sometimes that constraint is budget. Sometimes it’s…

May 15, 2026 · 9 min read · 0 claps #api #architecture #api-design

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HU Hui Wang

What If Your LLM Keeps Breaking JSON Output?

“Please output JSON only” is not an engineering strategy. It is a wish.

May 13, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #artificial-intelligence #large-language-models #software-engineering

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RU Ruslan Gilmullin

Three majors, two mistakes: designing a pause API for a Turing-machine interpreter

I spent the last two weeks shipping four breaking major versions of @turing-machine-js/machine — v3, v4, v5, v6 — and the most interesting…

May 11, 2026 · 7 min read · 1 claps #api-design #javascript #software-design

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VI Viplav

When to Use Deep Copy in Python: Removing Redundant API Calls (Real Example)

Introduction

May 02, 2026 · 2 min read · 0 claps #software-engineering #api-design #performance-optimization

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AN Anas Issath · Level Up Coding

API Design Patterns I Stole From Companies Like Stripe and GitHub

Great APIs aren’t invented. They’re borrowed from the best.

Apr 20, 2026 · 11 min read · 282 claps paywalled #fastapi #django #stripe-integration