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Error Handling in API Design

Error Handling in API Design

In this issue, we'll explore best practices for API error handling, structure error responses, and implement a robust error-handling system in a RESTful API using Node.js and Express.

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Idempotency in API Design

Idempotency in API Design

Idempotency is particularly important for handling retries in distributed systems, network failures, and duplicate requests.

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Solomom Eseme
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Rate Limiting in API Design

Rate Limiting in API Design

In this issue, we’ll explore the importance of rate limiting, common strategies used in API design, and implementation examples in Node.js using Express and Redis.

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Solomom Eseme
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Pagination in API Design

Pagination in API Design

In this issue, we will explore the role of pagination in API design, compare different pagination strategies, and provide detailed implementation examples.

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Solomom Eseme
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Building RESTful APIs

Building RESTful APIs

This issue will explore the fundamentals of building JSON/RESTful APIs, outline their benefits, and provide best practices and code examples to help you design APIs that are both efficient and easy to integrate.

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API and API Design: How Do Server-Sent Events (SSE) Work

API and API Design: How Do Server-Sent Events (SSE) Work

This issue will explore how SSE works, its advantages over other real-time communication methods, and best practices for designing SSE-powered APIs.

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Solomom Eseme
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API and API Design: How WebSockets Works

API and API Design: How WebSockets Works

Let’s deep dive into WebSockets today and learn the intricacies of Websockets, including a simple program that shows how to implement Websockets into our projects for real-time application.

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Solomom Eseme
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API and API Design: What are Real-time APIs?

API and API Design: What are Real-time APIs?

In this article, we’ll explore how Real-time APIs work, common use cases, architectural considerations, and some best practices for effective design.

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API and API Design: How Do Simple JSON APIs Work?

API and API Design: How Do Simple JSON APIs Work?

We will discuss one API style called Simple JSON APIs, we will look at how Simple JSON APIs work and the different components of Simple JSON APIs.

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Solomom Eseme
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API and API Design: How Does SOAP Work?

API and API Design: How Does SOAP Work?

We will discuss one API style called SOAP, we will look at how SOAP works and the different components of SOAP.

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API and API Design: How gRPC APIs Work?

API and API Design: How gRPC APIs Work?

We will discuss one API style called gRPC, we will look at how gRPC works and the different components of gRPC.

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API and API Design: How GraphQL APIs Work?

API and API Design: How GraphQL APIs Work?

We will discuss one API style called GraphQL, we will look at how GraphQL works and the different components of GraphQL.

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Solomom Eseme