NNagappan S1d ago · 10 min readRate Limits, Retries and Fallbacks: Keeping Your AI Feature Up When the Provider Isn'tIt's 2 AM and your phone buzzes. Your AI feature — the one that's been quietly working for three weeks — is throwing errors for every single user. You pull up the logs expecting a bug in your code. Thnagspidey.hashnode.dev
MMixVio AI1d ago · 7 min readLock or Expose? Designing Parameters for a One-Photo Video TemplateAn image-to-video model accepts a prompt, a length and a resolution. A one-photo template hides most of that. Here is how we would model the split in TypeScript. If you wrap an image-to-video model indev.mixvio.ai
MMeghsham Kapure3d ago · 8 min readREST APIAPI Technologies in Modern Backend Systems In modern backend systems, APIs are used for communication between different parts of the system, such as frontend and backend, microservices, and other sysmeghsham.hashnode.dev
Jjaberadam2001Oct 13 · 12 min readOffset vs Cursor Pagination: The 3 Ways Rows Still Go MissingYou ship an infinite-scroll feed. A week later a ticket arrives: "Page two sometimes shows a post I just saw on page one." You reproduce it, shrug, and switch the endpoint from LIMIT/OFFSET to cursor simplyexplained.hashnode.dev
PPowerduckOct 9 · 4 min readYour cURL Command Works. That Doesn't Make It API Documentation.“Here's the request. It works on my machine.” That message can be genuinely helpful. A cURL command gives another developer something concrete to run. It removes the need to reconstruct a URL, header,blogs.powerduck.com
PPowerduckOct 9 · 4 min readThe Most Useful API Review Starts With a Diff, Not a DemoThe demo goes well. A new checkout request succeeds, the response looks right, and everyone moves on. A week later, an older client fails because the request now requires a field it has never sent. Noblogs.powerduck.com
PPowerduckOct 9 · 5 min readYour Cancel Button Might Only Be Canceling the SpinnerClick Cancel. The spinner disappears. The button becomes clickable again. Meanwhile, the request is still running. This is easy to miss in a UI review because the screen looks correct. You only noticeblogs.powerduck.com
PPowerduckOct 9 · 5 min readYour API Returned 200. Your Integration Is Still Broken.The request is green. The dashboard is blank. Here is a hypothetical response from an account endpoint: { "id": "acct_42", "displayName": null, "plan": "free" } The server returned 200 OK. The blogs.powerduck.com
VVasyl KyryliukOct 8 · 12 min readWhat Should a VAT Calculation Record Actually Contain?A VAT calculation can look deceptively simple. You send an amount and a country. The system returns a VAT amount. For example: Net: €100.00 VAT: €19.00 Gross: €119.00 If all you need is the numbvat-engine.hashnode.dev
PPowerduckOct 8 · 6 min readDeprecating an API without breaking clients: Deprecation and Sunset headers, successor-version, and OpenAPIMost "deprecations" are either silent deletions that break an integration at 2 a.m., or permanent warnings that glow for years until everyone ignores them. A real deprecation is a timeline with a signblogs.powerduck.com
