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Combine Astro middleware with server endpoints to build request pipelines: auth gates, rate limiting, CORS handling, and JSON APIs that share context through Astro.locals.
Write machine-readable API documentation with OpenAPI 3.1. Learn the spec structure, Swagger UI setup, code generation, and best practices for keeping docs in sync.
Design consistent, machine-readable error responses using RFC 7807 Problem Details, custom error codes, and structured error envelopes that clients can actually parse.
Implement HATEOAS in your REST API using HAL, JSON:API, and custom link formats. Learn when hypermedia helps, when it hurts, and how to add it incrementally.
Choose the right pagination strategy for your REST API. Compare offset, cursor, and keyset pagination with real examples, HATEOAS links, and performance trade-offs.
Protect your REST API from abuse with rate limiting. Learn token bucket, sliding window, and fixed window algorithms with real implementation examples and standard headers.
A practical security checklist for REST APIs covering OWASP API Top 10, authentication, authorization, input validation, CORS, and common vulnerabilities with fixes.
Design reliable webhooks for your REST API. Learn delivery patterns, retry logic with exponential backoff, HMAC signature verification, and idempotent event handling.
Build production-ready gRPC services in Go with protobuf definitions, server and client implementation, streaming, interceptors, and error handling.
Learn the three most common REST API authentication methods. Compare API keys, JWT tokens, and OAuth 2.0 with working code examples and security best practices.
Master HTTP caching for REST APIs. Learn ETags, Cache-Control headers, conditional requests, and CDN integration patterns with practical examples.
Learn to test REST APIs manually with Postman and curl, then automate with Jest and Supertest. Covers status codes, response validation, and CI integration.
Compare REST, GraphQL, and gRPC for API design. Understand tradeoffs in performance, flexibility, and developer experience to pick the right API style.
Deploy machine learning models as production REST APIs using FastAPI with input validation, async inference, and health checks.
Build JSON APIs and dynamic responses directly in Astro using server endpoints. Learn the file conventions, request and response shapes, dynamic params, and how to mix endpoints with static and SSR pages.
Understand how DRF serializers validate, transform, and persist data, and learn how to compose them for complex API payloads.
A practical comparison of DRF and FastAPI: performance, ORM, validation, async, and how to choose for a new Python service.
Why GraphQL rate limiting is harder than REST and what to do about it. Covers query complexity analysis, depth limits, cost-based budgets, and per-field throttling.
An honest comparison of GraphQL and REST: where each one shines, where each one hurts, and how to choose without religion.
A practical guide to wiring GraphQL on top of Prisma. Schema design, resolvers, the N+1 problem, batching, and the patterns that keep your API fast as it grows.
Understand the difference between Pages Router API routes and App Router route handlers, including request, response, and runtime options.
Design clear, consistent error responses for REST APIs using HTTP status codes, problem details, and error envelopes that clients can actually handle.
Understand Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State, why most REST APIs skip it, and when adding hypermedia links actually pays off.
Compare offset, cursor, and keyset pagination for REST APIs. Pick the right pattern for your data, scale, and client experience.
Protect your API from abuse and accidental overload using token buckets, leaky buckets, and standard rate-limit headers that clients can actually respect.
Compare URL, header, and content-type versioning for REST APIs. Learn when to bump versions and how to retire old ones without breaking clients.
Understand consumer-driven contract testing, how it differs from integration tests, and how tools like Pact prevent breaking API changes between services.
How idempotency keys work, where to use them, and how to implement them correctly so clients can safely retry POST requests without creating duplicates.