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[AmbushEveryone]

I'm just learning how to build APIs and this some of the best info I've come across yet :)

[prukenope]

honestly, this guy is master of concept for me now

[munsifalimisri]

Pagination
Asynchronous logging
Caching
Payload compression
Connection pooling

[IMfLEX]

Love these shorts. Keep making them good sir.

[davidgillies]

Most modern DB APIs will do connection pooling for you. Certainly Postgres and MSSQL make this essentially transparent.

[doxologist]

Love these primers. You can never be too experienced to learn something from them :)

[morgwai]

compressing is not always a good idea: in case of a fast network, compressing may take more time than it saves during the transfer. Especially in case of big number of concurrent requests that will compete for the cpu.
btw of logging and connection pooling: that's out of the box in Java ;-)

[luckywatcher]

there's only two hard things in computer science/programming: naming things and cache invalidation. if you use something like redis, please use it with caution.

[Chiszle]

I'm not this advanced, but I feel I now know this better than some of the basics. Good lesson.

[irnehhenri]

Asynchronous logging is alreary standard if you don't prevent the OS from handling disk write buffering

[clarkflavor]

Oooh, I'm looking forward to reading that ebook!!

[oneautumnleaf]

I'm already doing them without noticing. 😂. Nice shorts tho. Very informative

[DJ-bopz]

Adding a caching layer is excellent, but then I thought why not use a different cheaper disk for logging? – logging has a write only access pattern, so a disk basically just needs to ingest it.

[skateboardpete]

Love this! Can you share the software that is used for these animations? - aspiring solution architect 😊

[LCTesla]

my tip: build relations with the parties whose API's you call and negotiate for them to do work on their side that you would otherwise be doing inefficiently on yours

[felipe]

you can also use binary data format like avro instead of json

[mukey]

Your stuff is awesome. What tool do you use to create your charts and graphics. This is great.

[monsieurnet]

Connection pool is a great idea. I will try it.

[vast]

Makes all sense. Adds complexity though.

[neonmidnight]

Redis is slow, in modern applications it's much more efficient to have in-memory cache, coordinated if needed, which is mandatory for achieving sub-ms response handling.