APIs, Infrastructure & Tools for Modern Builders
Deprecated API endpoints rarely disappear quietly. They linger in production environments, accumulate technical debt, and create downstream chaos for developers who never received adequate migration guidance. This article examines why API retirement strategies so frequently fail—and what engineering teams can do to execute them with precision.
API rate limiting is rarely treated as a first-class architectural concern — until a cascade failure makes it impossible to ignore. This article examines how throttling boundaries become systemic vulnerabilities, and what engineering teams must build into their infrastructure before production exposes the gaps.
Infrastructure failures rarely announce themselves in advance. This investigation examines real-world collapse scenarios from high-growth teams, uncovering the architectural blind spots and monitoring gaps that turned routine deployments into production emergencies — and the debugging frameworks that could have changed the outcome.
As distributed systems grow more complex, selecting the right API paradigm has become one of the most consequential infrastructure decisions a development team can make. This analysis examines REST, GraphQL, and gRPC across performance benchmarks, developer experience, and real-world scalability—complete with lessons from organizations that have navigated the transition between them. Whether you are building a greenfield microservices platform or re-architecting a legacy monolith, the framework