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Amazon Product API (PA-API) in 2026: Restrictions, Alternatives, and Web Scraping

Amazon’s Product Advertising API: The Access Problem Amazon’s Product Advertising API (PA-API 5.0) is powerful — when you can use it. The catch? You n…

How I Built a Self-Improving AI Election Assistant

The clock was ticking. The PromptWars Virtual Challenge 2 was in full swing, and the stakes couldn't be higher. With over 4 million submissions expect…

Normalized Categories: One Filter for "Polos" Across Every Supplier

If you've ever tried to search "polos under $10 in navy" across more than one supplier, you already know the punchline. SanMar files them under one la…

Why Paddle's subscription.activated arrives before subscription.created

You'd think events fire in the order things happen. They don't. I was building a Paddle integration last week. Subscription billing, nothing fancy. Cu…

Beyond the Origin: How Cloudflare Workers Forge High-Performance APIs

As engineers, we spend a lot of time optimizing our origin servers. We scale them up, add more instances, and fine-tune our database queries. But what…

Your AI agent shouldn't write HTML. It should call a UI runtime.

Hey Everyone, it's been a while. The last few years, I've played around with various AI technologies, building. Recently, I have built a product I wan…

🛣️ Routing in Backend Development — The Complete Developer's Guide

You've probably typed GET /api/users a hundred times. But do you really know what's happening under the hood when a request hits your server and someh…

My Tiny Rust Utils, Part 4: web.rs

I like reqwest . I just do not always like seeing raw reqwest patterns repeated all over my application code. That is the whole reason src/utils/web.r…

We Built a Public API With Test/Live Key Isolation. Here's How It Works Under the Hood.

Most API platforms give you test keys and live keys. Stripe does it. Twilio does it. It feels like magic - you test against a sandbox, flip to product…

Попробовали научить AI искать то, чего никто не замечает — слабые рыночные сигналы

За одни сутки и шесть долларов алгоритм самостоятельно провёл почти две тысячи экспериментов на российском фондовом рынке. Он не ждал команды. Сам фор…

# 5 Best Proxies for Web Scraping in 2026

Most articles about proxies focus on IP pool size and price per GB. That's the wrong question. If you're: building a price monitoring pipeline for you…

Real-Time DMS Sign Messages API: What's on the Highway Signs Right Now

Dynamic Message Signs (DMS) — those big electronic boards over highways — display real-time traveler information: incident warnings, travel times, amb…

How to Merge and Concatenate Videos with FFmpeg

Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com You need to join two or more video files into one. Maybe you're stitching together clips from a multi-camera …

GitHub API Rate Limits in 2026: When Web Scraping Is the Better Choice

GitHub API Rate Limits: The Numbers That Block Your Project GitHub’s REST API is one of the most generous public APIs out there — until it isn’t. At 5…

I built a textile pattern generation API because PatternedAI has no API

I built a textile pattern generation API because PatternedAI has no API There's a real category gap in the AI-pattern space. PatternedAI has 600K user…

I'm Selling a $5 Starter Kit for x402 Paid APIs. Here's What's In It and Why.

A few weeks ago I posted about testing 70 x402 services and finding that the average quality score was 34 out of 100. The most common problem wasn't b…

Credential Vending in Apache Polaris: Securing Data Access Without Sharing Keys

Credential Vending in Apache Polaris: Securing Data Access Without Sharing Keys By Prithvi S – Staff Software Engineer at Cloudera Introduction In mod…

Easily benchmark all your app's endpoints at once

Most "load tests" in real codebases are a curl pasted into a Slack thread. Someone runs it before a release, eyeballs the latency, and we ship. There'…

I built istempmail.com

I built istempmail.com here’s what it does It’s a tool designed to help websites detect and block temporary (disposable) email addresses. Temporary em…

SQL Server ETL in 2026 — What Actually Works and What Doesn't

SQL Server is one of those databases that rarely causes problems. It's usually everything around it that does. Getting data in from a dozen different …

How to Give Your AI Agent Niche Research Superpowers with x402 Micropayments

Your AI agent is great at reasoning — but it's starved for real-world niche data. Market intelligence, keyword demand, competition scores... this stuf…

Test Paddle webhooks without account verification

You can't test a Paddle subscription cancel webhook until Paddle has verified your business. That takes days. Paddle's billing API handles subscriptio…

BEST PRACTICES ON CONSUMING APIS.

SECURITY FIRST Never store API keys in the front-end. Use Environment variables (.env) for build time keys but sensitive keys should stay on a backend…

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Beyond Throttling: Rate Limiting as a Strategic Layer in Modern API Systems

Originally published on GeekyAnts Blog by Pushkar Kumar , Senior Technical Consultant. Modern digital platforms run on APIs — they are the highways th…

Idempotency Keys: What Most Tutorials Don't Tell You

Every payment flow has a silent enemy: the network. Requests time out, connections drop, users panic, and click twice. What happens to your system whe…

Автоматизация проектных продаж и закупок: внедрение on-prem BPMS на Linux и PostgreSQL

Чтобы подготовить КП по сложному инженерному проекту, одного менеджера недостаточно. Нужно собрать расчёты от нескольких специалистов, а после согласо…

How I Automated My Investment Research With 50 Lines of Python

The Problem: Too Much Noise, Not Enough Signal A while ago, my daily investment routine looked like this: Open multiple tabs Check stock prices Compar…

Implementing Rate Limiting for AI APIs

Rate limiting is what keeps your APIs stable under pressure. It helps to control how many requests a user or system can make, especially when working …

The five-call cross-border KYB workflow — walking a UBO chain across jurisdictions in a single prompt

The five-call cross-border KYB workflow — walking a UBO chain across jurisdictions in a single prompt KYB ("Know Your Business") used to mean "pull a …