Archive

2026

• Oct 5 Turning Ten Minutes of Production Traffic Into an API Regression Suite
• Oct 5 Trimming 100 KB API Responses to the Five Fields Your Client Uses, at the Proxy
• Oct 5 The New MCP Spec Caches Tool Lists but Not Tool Calls, and a Caching Proxy Fills the Gap
• Oct 5 The Best Small Infrastructure Tools Reduce Data Near the Source Instead of Storing More
• Oct 5 Stop Reparsing the Same Big JSON Documents: Persist Them as Indexed Binary Instead
• Oct 5 Routing LLM Requests by Token Count, Privacy Tag and Cost Ceiling From One Config File
• Oct 5 Record an Agent's MCP Traffic Once, Then Replay It in CI Without Servers or Credentials
• Oct 5 Package a Failed API Request Into One File Anyone Can Replay Locally
• Oct 5 Most MCP Token Waste Is in Tool Results: Put a Deterministic Reducer Between Server and Model
• Oct 5 MCP Tool Calls Are Plain HTTP Now: Route Them With a Small Proxy Before Buying a Gateway
• Oct 5 Mapping an Unfamiliar API by Following the IDs Between Its Endpoints
• Oct 5 Make for APIs: Rerun Only the Steps Downstream of an Endpoint That Changed
• Oct 5 LLM Response Caching Pays Off in CI, Evals and Agent Retries, Not in Chat
• Oct 5 Keeping Third-Party API Responses in SQLite Gets You a Cache, an Offline Mode and a History
• Oct 5 Infer Your API's Real Contract From Traffic, Then Diff It Against the Docs
• Oct 5 Give Any API a History: Poll It, Hash It and Query Old Versions With SQL
• Oct 5 Fuzzing MCP Servers: Generate Bad Arguments From the Tool Schema and Watch What Breaks
• Oct 5 Finding API Endpoints, Tables and Flags Nobody Uses Takes Code and Traffic Together
• Oct 5 Diagnose a Slow API From One Request: DNS, Connect, TLS, Server Wait and Transfer
• Oct 5 Benchmarking MCP Servers and Stateful API Workflows: Latency, Throughput and Tokens per Call
• Oct 5 An AI Agent Flight Recorder Belongs in One Portable File, the Way HAR Did It for HTTP
• Oct 5 A Tiny ETL Binary Competes With curl, jq and SQLite in a Cron Job, So Build It That Small
• Sep 21 Reading the Launch Library API for Rocket Launch Schedules Without a Key
• Sep 21 Querying USAspending for Federal Contract Awards With a POST Search and No API Key
• Sep 21 GBIF's API Returns CC BY-NC Images by Default, Which Breaks Commercial Use
• Sep 21 Fetching a Remote JSON API at Build Time in Hugo with resources.GetRemote
• Sep 21 Caching a Third-Party API Response in a Cloudflare Pages Function
• Sep 21 Audit an API Field's Completeness Before You Build a Feature on It
• Sep 17 API Testing Strategies: What to Test and When
• Sep 17 API Monetization Models: How Companies Actually Charge for Access
• Sep 12 AI Platforms for Designing APIs in 2026: Spec Editors, SDK Generators, MCP Builders and AI Gateways Reviewed
• Jul 30 Every Accident in Your API Becomes a Contract
• Apr 28 Why Private Domain Data Is the Real Key to AI That Actually Works
• Apr 25 Orkes Raises $60M to Bring Production-Grade AI Orchestration to Enterprise Developers
• Apr 23 Form.io Launches MCP Server and Agentic Coding Toolset for Governed Enterprise AI Development
• Apr 20 Five SDK Generators Compared: Speakeasy, Stainless, Fern, APIMatic, and OpenAPI Generator
• Apr 20 Appdome Upgrades MobileBOT Defense With Identity-First Mobile API Protection
• Apr 18 API Monetization Models That Work and the Ones That Drive Developers Away
• Apr 13 gRPC in Production: What the Documentation Doesn't Tell You
• Apr 6 Event-Driven Architecture vs Request-Response: Choosing the Right Communication Pattern
• Mar 30 The Business Case for Internal APIs That Most Engineering Leaders Ignore
• Mar 23 Breaking Changes: How to Avoid Shipping Them and What to Do When You Must
• Mar 16 SDK Design: Making Your API Easy to Use Is Not the Same as Making It Easy to Build
• Mar 9 API Testing Strategies That Catch the Problems Unit Tests Miss
• Mar 2 The GraphQL N+1 Problem and How to Actually Fix It
• Feb 16 OWASP API Security Top 10: The Vulnerabilities Shipping in Production Right Now
• Feb 2 Pagination Strategies for Large Datasets and Why Offset Pagination Fails
• Jan 19 HTTP Status Codes Are Being Used Wrong and It Is Your Problem Too
• Jan 5 The Hidden Costs of Third-Party API Dependencies

2025

• Dec 15 API Gateway: Build vs Buy and Why Most Teams Choose Wrong
• Dec 1 OpenAPI Has Won. Here Is What That Actually Means for Your API.
• Nov 17 Webhooks vs Polling: The Decision Most Teams Get Backwards
• Nov 3 API Documentation That Developers Actually Use
• Oct 20 Rate Limiting Is Not Optional and Most Implementations Are Wrong
• Oct 6 API Authentication: JWT, OAuth2, and API Keys Each Have a Job
• Sep 22 API Versioning Strategies That Don't Break Your Consumers
• Sep 8 REST vs GraphQL vs gRPC: The Honest Comparison