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4 articles from 2022 · show all

October 2022

October 28, 2022

A painful lesson from production that brought several engineers almost to tears: *Please* add PATCH endpoints to your public APIs.

June 7, 2022

A fun problem for RESTful APIs: Did you get 404 because your URL is wrong or because the resource wasn't found?

May 13, 2022

Microservices are a pain in the ass. They turn every system into a byzantine mess of complexity. But this week ... they saved my butt.

April 4, 2022

The pros and cons of different approaches to writing resilient code that handles partial failures