2d ago · 9 min read · Agents are only as good as the tools you give them. You can have the most sophisticated LLM in the world, but if your function interfaces are poorly designed, your agent will struggle to use them correctly. I've spent the last few months building and...
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4d ago · 7 min read · Modern enterprise teams rarely struggle to add version numbers to APIs. The real challenge is choosing a versioning model that protects client integrations, supports controlled platform change, and do
Join discussion5d ago · 11 min read · TLDR: A "one-size-fits-all" API causes bloated mobile payloads and underpowered desktop dashboards. The Backend for Frontend (BFF) pattern solves this by creating a dedicated API server for each client type — the mobile BFF reshapes data for small sc...
Join discussionMar 7 · 7 min read · Duplicate payment incidents are usually not caused by bad business logic. They happen when retries, timeouts, and mobile reconnects hit non-idempotent endpoints that were never designed for uncertaint
Join discussionMar 4 · 9 min read · Every API needs rate limiting. Without it, a single misbehaving client can overwhelm your servers, a bug in consumer code can create accidental denial-of-service attacks, and bad actors can abuse your resources. But rate limiting creates friction. De...
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Mar 4 · 4 min read · Most teams design APIs one of two ways: write code first and extract OpenAPI from annotations, or write OpenAPI YAML directly and generate types from it. Both have the same problem — you end up maintaining two things (schema + code) that need to stay...
Join discussionFeb 25 · 6 min read · How Systems Protect Themselves from Too Many Requests Modern systems don’t fail because they are badly written. They fail because they receive more requests than they can safely handle. Whether it’s an API, a backend service, or a public-facing platf...
Join discussionFeb 21 · 6 min read · gRPC Behind API Gateways: Bridging Internal and External APIs Modern distributed systems face a fundamental tension: internal services demand maximum performance and type safety, while external clients need flexibility and broad compatibility. This a...
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