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The API Podcast with Fexingo: REST, GraphQL, and Modern Web APIs

The API Podcast with Fexingo: REST, GraphQL, and Modern Web APIs

著者： Fexingo
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Every week, Lucas and Luna sit down at a developer-focused office workstation to trace how applications actually talk to each other — not the hype, but the design decisions, trade-offs, and real-world failures that shape modern API architecture. Lucas, with a journalist's precision, lays out why a team chose REST over GraphQL for a payments pipeline handling 50,000 requests per second, or how a poorly designed endpoint caused a cascade failure in a major ride-hailing service. Luna, the engaged interlocutor, pushes back: when does schema flexibility become a liability? How do versioning strategies survive a decade of production use? Together, they dissect public postmortems, API design docs, and developer surveys — not to sell a tool, but to understand the engineering logic behind each choice. This show is for backend engineers, API product managers, and technical leads who need to decide, not just follow the trend. Expect no demos, no code walkthroughs — just two smart people reasoning about trade-offs in stateless design, pagination patterns, rate-limiting, and the cost of backward compatibility. By the end of each episode, you'll have a clearer framework for your own decisions: Should your next endpoint be a query or a mutation? When does an SDK become a maintenance burden? And how do you design an API that your colleagues will still respect five years from now? #REST #GraphQL #WebAPIs #APIDesign #BackendEngineering #SoftwareArchitecture #APIVersioning #Microservices #HTTP #DeveloperTools #APIPostmortem #PlatformEngineering #Technology #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #Business #TechPodcast #SoftwareEngineering Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo© 2026 Fexingo. All rights reserved. 経済学
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  • How API Gateways Are Becoming Security Perimeters

    How API Gateways Are Becoming Security Perimeters
    2026/06/07
    In this episode of The API Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how API gateways have evolved from simple reverse proxies into critical security perimeters. They break down a real-world case: how a mid-sized fintech company used gateway-level policies to block a credential-stuffing attack before it reached their application servers. Topics include gateway authentication strategies, the trade-off between centralised and distributed security, and why rate limiting alone isn't enough. They also discuss how modern gateways like Kong and Envoy support pluggable security policies, and what the rise of zero-trust architectures means for API design. If you've ever wondered whether your API needs its own security layer, this episode offers a concrete framework for thinking about gateway-level protection. #APIGateway #SecurityPerimeter #Fintech #CredentialStuffing #ZeroTrust #KongGateway #EnvoyProxy #APISecurity #RateLimiting #Authentication #Plugins #ReverseProxy #Technology #TechPodcast #APIDesign #CloudNative #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    11 分
  • How APIs Use Retry Logic to Survive Network Failures

    How APIs Use Retry Logic to Survive Network Failures
    2026/06/07
    When a network call fails, should your API retry immediately or back off? This episode of The API Podcast drills into retry strategies — exponential backoff, jitter, and the dreaded thundering herd problem. Lucas and Luna unpack how Stripe handles idempotent retries for payment intents, why Amazon S3 uses truncated exponential backoff, and what happens when every client retries at the exact same second. They also break down the Retry-After header, the difference between safe and unsafe retries, and the one rule that keeps retries from making an outage worse. If you've ever seen a 429 or a 503 and wondered whether to hit the button again, this episode explains when to wait — and by how much. #APIRetry #ExponentialBackoff #ThunderingHerd #Stripe #AmazonS3 #HTTPStatusCodes #Idempotency #Jitter #RetryAfter #NetworkFailure #APIResilience #BackendEngineering #DistributedSystems #TechPodcast #APIPodcast #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #SoftwareArchitecture Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    8 分
  • How API Caching Cut Cloud Bills by 40 Percent

    How API Caching Cut Cloud Bills by 40 Percent
    2026/06/06
    Most developers think of caching as a performance optimization—something that makes your API faster, snappier, less painful for users. But this episode flips that script and looks at caching as a financial instrument. Lucas and Luna walk through a real case: a mid-stage SaaS company that was burning $80,000 a month on its API infrastructure, mostly on redundant database queries and repeated computations. By layering in a three-tier cache strategy—local in-memory, a shared Redis layer, and a CDN edge cache—they dropped their cloud bill by 40 percent in under six weeks. The hosts break down the trade-offs: stale data vs. fresh reads, cache invalidation patterns like write-through and time-to-live, and how to decide what to cache in the first place. They also touch on the hidden costs of caching, like increased complexity and debugging difficulty. No platitudes, no theory—just the concrete numbers and decisions behind one team's caching turnaround. This episode is for engineers and engineering leaders who want their APIs to do more with less. #APICaching #CloudCosts #Redis #CDN #CacheInvalidation #WriteThrough #TimeToLive #SaaS #Infrastructure #Performance #DeveloperExperience #TechPodcast #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #TheAPIPodcast #LucasAndLuna #NoAds #BuyMeACoffee Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    10 分
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