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api-design
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System Design API Design for Interviews: Contracts, Idempotency, and Pagination
TLDR: In system design interviews, API design is not a list of HTTP verbs. It is a contract strategy: clear resource boundaries, stable request and response shapes, pagination, idempotency, error semantics, and versioning decisions that survive scale...
•8 min read
Backend for Frontend (BFF): Tailoring APIs for UI
TLDR: A "one-size-fits-all" API causes bloated mobile payloads and underpowered desktop dashboards. The Backend for Frontend (BFF) pattern solves this by creating a dedicated API server for each client type — the mobile BFF reshapes data for small sc...
•5 min read