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Rate Limits, Quotas and Backoff: Calling Third-Party APIs Without Getting Blocked

Rate Limits, Quotas and Backoff: Calling Third-Party APIs Without Getting Blocked

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A 429 is an API politely asking you to slow down, and most code answers by retrying harder. Here's how to handle rate limits properly: Retry-After, exponential backoff with jitter, queues and a circuit breaker.

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WebSockets vs Server-Sent Events vs Polling: Choosing Real-Time Without Regret

WebSockets vs Server-Sent Events vs Polling: Choosing Real-Time Without Regret

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Not every live feature needs WebSockets. Polling, long polling, Server-Sent Events and WebSockets each fit a different job. Here's how they work, what they cost to run, and a simple way to choose.

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Uptime and Error Monitoring for Small Teams: A Setup You Can Finish This Week

Uptime and Error Monitoring for Small Teams: A Setup You Can Finish This Week

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Small teams need monitoring more than big ones, because nobody else is watching. Five layers you can build in a week: honest health checks, outside uptime checks, error tracking, heartbeats, and alerts that reach a person.

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Database Replication Explained: Primaries, Replicas and the Lag That Bites

Database Replication Explained: Primaries, Replicas and the Lag That Bites

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The user saves a form, gets redirected, and sees "record not found". Then they refresh and it's there. How database replication works, what Laravel's sticky option fixes, and the lag problems it doesn't.

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Me vs the "Quick" Database Migration on a Big Table

Me vs the "Quick" Database Migration on a Big Table

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Five lines. Widen a column, add an index. It runs instantly locally. The five stages of a quick migration on a big production table, why it hangs, and the habits that make migrations boring again.

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The Security Headers Most Sites Forget (and How to Add Them in Laravel)

The Security Headers Most Sites Forget (and How to Add Them in Laravel)

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A few lines of HTTP headers can stop clickjacking, script injection and leaky URLs, and most sites still skip them. The common mistakes with CSP, HSTS, frame-ancestors, Referrer-Policy and Permissions-Policy, plus a Laravel middleware.

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01. About Shiroz

Mohammed Shiroz

Hi, I'm Mohammed Shiroz, a software engineer and AI enthusiast from Sri Lanka who turns ideas into intelligent, real-world solutions. With over 9 years of hands-on experience, I currently lead real estate ERP development at Kate Group, a...

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