Development Practices Caching: The Bad Parts Caching is important in a fundamental way to computation. But, when caching goes bad, it gets horribly, catastrophically bad.
Developer Tools Simplify RAG with Pinecone + LangChain Implementing Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is surprisingly easy using Pinecone's vector database and the LangChain ecosystem.
Development Practices What Makes Good API Documentation? API documentation can turn integrating a service from a three-day endeavor to a 10-plus-day endeavor depending on its quality.
Development Practices Build Resilient API Clients: Implementing Retry and Circuit Breaker Patterns Let's explore strategies to strengthen this automation's API clients by implementing retry and circuit breaker patterns.
Development Practices Think Like a Hacker: Pitfalls to Avoid When Writing an API Learn how to secure your API by thinking like a hacker. Discover best practices for writing an API and protecting it from potential attacks.
C & C++ Align Optionality in Your C# API with OpenAPI 3.1 Specifications If you're using C# for your API and OpenAPI 3.1 for your specification, there are several techniques you can employ to ensure they match up.
Developer Tools When to Use PUT and When to Use PATCH PATCH endpoints are often used infrequently compared to PUT. By demystifying the request body, we can create a more efficient API.
Developer Tools Leverage Go’s Concurrency: Transforming API Data Fetching with Goroutines and Channels Concurrency in Go is a standout feature due to the simplicity and efficiency of goroutines (lightweight threads) and channels.
Platforms & Languages How To Use API Route Handlers in Next.js 13+ (App Router) The latest Next.js update introduces a directory structure known as the app router and a new method for handling API routes: Route Handlers.
Java Zip Archives with the Java Stream API Here are example implementations of creating a Java Stream API that yields the entries in a ZIP archive, reading from a provided InputStream.
AWS Use AWS API Gateway for External Access to an Existing Web App Learn how to use AWS API Gateway with OpenAPI to quickly add support for external API access to an existing web app.
Development Practices Save Your Backend: Separating Business Logic and Data Access in Your API This design pattern can save you some ibuprofen: maintaining the separation of concerns between business logic and data access functions.
