1. The Hidden Cost of GraphQL GraphQL gives you one endpoint and exactly the fields you ask for, but that flexibility has a price. With REST, the URL is the cache key. GraphQL has nothing like that, so by defau 10/26 00:03 ♡
2. Your browser can't speak gRPC A browser can't speak native gRPC. You need gRPC-Web, usually with a proxy like Envoy in front of your server, and even then the gRPC-Web README says client-side and bi-directional 10/25 02:03 ♡
3. WebSockets sound perfect. So why aren't they the default? WebSockets give you an open connection where both sides can send whenever they want. So why aren't they the default? The Spring docs: "It is the combination of low latency, high fr 10/23 23:05 ♡
4. 3 Rules Before You Pick an API Style Most of you need REST, plus one other API style at most. Three rules before you pick: start with REST, ask who starts the conversation and who's on the other end, and write down wh 10/23 02:02 ♡
5. Webhooks: what Stripe warns you about What happens when the thing you're waiting for lives on someone else's server? Polling asks again and again; a webhook turns it around, and their server calls yours. But Stripe war 10/21 23:10 ♡
6. Every Important System Design Concept Explained in 10 Minutes 👉 Land the job. Get the promotion. Become a better dev. https://skool.com/amigoscode-academy You can study System Design for 6 months and still have no idea whether you're ready. 10/21 21:30 ♡
7. 6 ways to build an API (most devs only know 1) How should two services talk to each other? Most of us reach for REST, but there are at least six ways to build an API, and picking the wrong one can cost you a rewrite of the laye 10/21 02:32 ♡
8. Still Writing a For Loop to Filter a List? Java Streams Turn a loop (a new list, a for, an if and an add) into one stream: filter keeps the paid orders, map turns each into its total, and toList collects them. Need one number instead? U 10/19 23:03 ♡
9. API Mistakes You Need to STOP (Before the Rewrite) 👉 Land the job. Get the promotion. Become a better dev. https://skool.com/amigoscode-academy Picking the wrong API style can cost you a rewrite of the layer everything else sits o 10/17 22:57 ♡
10. Still Writing 35 Lines to Hold Two Values? Java Records A Money class with a constructor, two getters, equals, hashCode and toString is 35 lines, and none of it is your logic. Since Java 16, a record does it in one line. You get a const 10/17 02:02 ♡
