Every API product manager wants as many developers as possible adopting and using their APIs. They want them to get to Hello World quickly and have a great developer experience (DX) along the way. Of course, the bigger goal is to be able to tie API success into the larger objectives of the company. For … Read more
Why I prefer the exception-less approach via the Result pattern Exception handling is not easy. It can be done in the wrong places, it can be done the wrong way, and it can even be forgotten completely. The best we can do to help our fellow developers with that problem is to design our API … Read more
Using Typescript obviously Photo by Tatiana Rodriguez on Unsplash Table of contents: HTTP provides a set of methods through which web browsers can communicate with web servers. There are 4 popular/well-known methods: GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE. We will discuss GET and POST in this article, but there are much more. GET: As the name … Read more
Why When we create software, we rarely do it without errors. API creation isn’t exempt from this fact, so sooner or later, we’ll need to debug it. In JavaScript, the first stop for a debugging task is often logging to the consolebut using a debugger can give us a more integrated experience. Node js is … Read more
To help people get started with ScyllaDB NoSQL, we published CarePet: a project that demonstrates a generic Internet of Things (IoT) use case. The application is written in Go and allows tracking of pets’ health indicators. It consists of three parts: A collar that reads and pushes sensors data A web app for reading and … Read more
This is an article from DZone’s 2022 Microservices and Containerization Trend Report. For more: Read the Report Have you encountered challenges in how to manage data in a microservices architecture? In this article, we examine traditional approaches and introduce the data API gateway (also sometimes known as a “data gateway”), a new type of data … Read more
In one of my earlier posts, I described the Backend-for-Frontend pattern. In short, it offers a single facade over multiple backend parts. Moreover, it provides each client type, eg desktop, mobile, exactly the data that it needs and not more in the format required by this client type. The Use-case Imagine the following use case. … Read more
There is perhaps no file type more ubiquitous (by design) than the Portable Document Format (PDF). Capable of holding an impressive variety of content/object types and work seamlessly on any operating system you can think of, PDFs dominate personal and professional project landscapes as a destination format for bulky and/or specially formatted files. File types … Read more
How my search for the ideal time tracking tool ended with a surprising result Image from Unsplash by Bred Neathery In this article, I want to present a way to track your time using Telegram’s Bot API and Webhooks. I will guide you through the setup, configuration, and deployment. But first, let’s look at how … Read more
The term API stands for application programming interface, a concept that applies everywhere from command-line tools to enterprise code, microservices, and cloud-native architectures. An API is an interface that software developers use to programmatically interact with software components or resources outside of their own code. An even simpler definition is that an API is the … Read more