FCFernando Castellanosinbackend-debugging.hashnode.dev·13h ago · 17 min readFrom Smoke Tests to Production Truth: Lessons from Load Testing Five APIs with LocustWhat five production APIs taught me when a green smoke test stopped being enough The short version. An API that returns HTTP 200 in a smoke test has told you almost nothing about whether it survives 00
JTJAY TANKinjaytank.hashnode.dev·2h ago · 4 min readThe backend wasn't ready, so I stopped waiting for itSome version of this has stalled me more times than I'd like to admit: I'm ready to build the frontend, or wire up a service, or write the integration tests — and the API it depends on isn't there yet00
ADAce Data Cloudinacedatacloud.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 5 min readHow to Build an Image Generation Endpoint with gpt-image-2 (Beginner's Guide)If you have ever wired an image model into a product, you know the hard part is not only “make an image” — it is choosing the right model, keeping the request shape predictable, and handling the resul00
ADAce Data Cloudinacedatacloud.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 5 min readHow to Turn a Simple Song Idea into Structured Style DirectionIf you have ever started a music generation workflow with a prompt that felt too thin, this guide shows a small way to turn that rough idea into a more usable style direction. When I build with gener00
HBHilda Biendeinhilda-biende.hashnode.dev·3d ago · 7 min readREST APIs for Beginners: Understanding GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE 1. Introduction APIs are everywhere in modern web development. Whether you are building a single-page application, a mobile app, or integrating a payment gateway, chances are you are interacting with 00
AActorForgeinactorforge.hashnode.dev·3d ago · 18 min readThe Wildberries API in English: How to Get Products, Prices and Reviews as JSONWildberries is one of the largest online marketplaces in Russia. If you build price monitoring, assortment analytics or review mining for e-commerce, sooner or later a client asks for its data — and y00
AActorForgeinactorforge.hashnode.dev·3d ago · 17 min readExpensive Discovery, Cheap Enrichment: A Marketplace Scraper Architecture Built Around Rate LimitsMost marketplace scrapers are shaped like a human browsing session: open the listing page, read the cards, click into each product, read the detail page, go back, next page. Whether it's Playwright or00
NNemoRouterinnemorouter.hashnode.dev·3d ago · 2 min readHow I Replaced Five LLM SDKs With One API KeyEvery AI app I've built eventually hits the same wall: I start with one provider, then a second model is cheaper for classification, a third is better at long context, and suddenly I'm juggling five S00
UUrokraakeincongress-trading.hashnode.dev·3d ago · 1 min readI made a Congress Trading Tracker API By law, members of Congress have to publicly disclose their stock trades within a matter of weeks. I built an API that turns those disclosures into something you can actually query and build on, inste10
ADAce Data Cloudinacedatacloud.hashnode.dev·4d ago · 6 min readA Practical Guide to Image Editing APIs with gpt-image-2If you build content tools, internal dashboards, or small automation workflows, image editing is often the awkward step: the data is already available, the prompt is clear, but someone still has to op00
