API DevelopmentHTTP Status Codes You Are Probably Using Wrong
A partner retried a malformed request forever because we returned 500 instead of 400. Both sides behaved correctly and the system still broke.
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API DevelopmentRate Limiting: Four Algorithms and 1.4 Million Requests
A customer's retry loop made 1.4 million requests overnight and took the API down. They were not attacking us — their code had a bug and we had no limits.
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API DevelopmentREST, GraphQL and the API Design Decisions You Cannot Undo
We shipped a list endpoint without pagination because the list had thirty items. Eighteen months later it had 62,000, and four clients depended on the shape.
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