when tRPC beats REST for fine‑grained data fetching in Next.js
in a midsize SaaS product we hit a scaling wall when dozens of React components started querying overlapping slices of a user record. each component…
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Designing APIs for AI Agents: Idempotency, Machine-Readable Errors, and 202 + Webhooks
Most APIs were designed for two consumers: a human reading documentation and code a human wrote once. An AI agent is neither. It discovers endpoints…
Multipart Uploads Made Simple: Sending Files with curl's `-F` Flag in Java
Every admin console ends up with a file upload — Excel imports, avatar pictures, PDF attachments. Implementing multipart requests by hand in OkHttp…
REST vs GraphQL in Practice
The Real Trade-offs After building APIs with both REST and GraphQL, I've learned that the choice isn't about which is "better" but about what your c…
Dropwizard: A Practical Java Framework for Building RESTful Web Services (2026-08-23 14:20)
Dropwizard: A Practical Java Framework for Building RESTful Web Services When you need to build a production-ready RESTful web service in Java witho…
JAX-RS: Building RESTful Web Services in Java (2026-08-20 22:15)
JAX-RS: Java API for RESTful Web Services JAX-RS (Java API for RESTful Web Services) is a specification that simplifies the development of REST APIs…
Is Your REST API really a REST API?
Before anything I want us to keep this name at the top of our heads, not forever but for now. LEONARD RICHARDSON . I know your question. Why? That's…
REST vs GraphQL in Practice
The Practical Differences When I started building APIs, REST was the default. Then GraphQL came along and promised to fix everything. After using bo…
Building an embeddable calculator widget from a REST API: how ReceiptEdit ships sales tax as an iframe
Continuing the open sales-tax dataset thread — the useful trick I did not think would matter as much as it did: shipping the data as an embeddable i…
Built by a Developer, for Developers: Why PSRESTful Is the Fastest Path to PromoStandards Integrations
PSRESTful wasn't designed in a product meeting. It was built by a developer who spent years wiring PromoStandards integrations by hand: crafting SOA…
"The 6 Pagination Bugs That Eat Oracle Fusion REST API Integrations"
Every collection GET against an Oracle Fusion REST API is paginated whether you ask for it or not. Call GET /workers , treat the response as "all wo…
"Oracle FSCM REST API: What Transfers From HCM and What Doesn't"
If you've integrated with Oracle Fusion HCM ( /hcmRestApi/ ), the Financials and Supply Chain surface ( /fscmRestApi/ ) is 90% the same API with a d…
When to choose gRPC over REST and Other Alternatives?
Quick Decision Tree: Which to choose? Public APIs / external clients → REST (simple, widely compatible). Internal service-to-service (microservices)…
REST vs GraphQL: When to Use Which
When designing a web application, one of the most critical decisions developers face is choosing the right API architecture. With the rise of REST (…
API Versioning Strategies: URL Path, Query Params, and Headers Compared
API Versioning Strategies: URL Path, Query Params, and Headers Compared Every API evolves. Fields get renamed, endpoints get restructured, response…