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Getting Started With API Design

By James Whitfield · · 1284 words
Getting Started With API Design

Load Balancing: A queue smooths spikes but also hides how far behind you are. Retries without jitter turn a small outage into a large one. That applies to load balancing as well. In practice, load balancing behaves differently: Separating the reads from the writes buys room to change either side.

Load Balancing: If the rollback plan needs a meeting, it is not a rollback plan. Load Balancing: Small pages that stay small are easier to keep fast than large ones made fast. Load Balancing: Write the invariant down; otherwise it lives only in someone's memory.

In practice, backup strategy behaves differently: A queue smooths spikes but also hides how far behind you are. Retries without jitter turn a small outage into a large one. The same reasoning holds for backup strategy. For backup strategy, the constraint matters more than the feature list. Separating the reads from the writes buys room to change either side.

In practice, cost controls behaves differently: A queue smooths spikes but also hides how far behind you are. Retries without jitter turn a small outage into a large one. The same reasoning holds for cost controls. For cost controls, the constraint matters more than the feature list. Separating the reads from the writes buys room to change either side.

Edge Caching: Periodic jobs should be safe to run twice, because they will be. Edge Caching: You rarely need a new component to fix a boundary problem. Edge Caching: The signal you want is often already logged, just not aggregated.

The first thing to settle is the failure mode, not the happy path. This is most visible in schema markup. Consider schema markup specifically. Measurements taken once are anecdotes; you need a baseline that repeats. Schema Markup: Costs usually concentrate in a small number of operations, so find those first.

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A queue smooths spikes but also hides how far behind you are. This is most visible in search indexing. Consider search indexing specifically. Retries without jitter turn a small outage into a large one. Search Indexing: Separating the reads from the writes buys room to change either side.

In practice, data pipelines behaves differently: A queue smooths spikes but also hides how far behind you are. Retries without jitter turn a small outage into a large one. The same reasoning holds for data pipelines. For data pipelines, the constraint matters more than the feature list. Separating the reads from the writes buys room to change either side.

Data Pipelines: The interesting number is not the average, it is the 99th percentile. Data Pipelines: Adding a cache in front of a slow query is a fix; fixing the query is a cure. Data Pipelines: Every abstraction you add is a place where behaviour can differ from intent.

Consider api design specifically. If the rollback plan needs a meeting, it is not a rollback plan. API Design: Small pages that stay small are easier to keep fast than large ones made fast. Write the invariant down; otherwise it lives only in someone's memory. That applies to api design as well.

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Rate Limiting: Periodic jobs should be safe to run twice, because they will be. Rate Limiting: You rarely need a new component to fix a boundary problem. Rate Limiting: The signal you want is often already logged, just not aggregated.

Periodic jobs should be safe to run twice, because they will be. This is most visible in backup strategy. Consider backup strategy specifically. You rarely need a new component to fix a boundary problem. Backup Strategy: The signal you want is often already logged, just not aggregated.

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In practice, rate limiting behaves differently: Periodic jobs should be safe to run twice, because they will be. You rarely need a new component to fix a boundary problem. The same reasoning holds for rate limiting. For rate limiting, the constraint matters more than the feature list. The signal you want is often already logged, just not aggregated.

Edge Caching: The interesting number is not the average, it is the 99th percentile. Edge Caching: Adding a cache in front of a slow query is a fix; fixing the query is a cure. Edge Caching: Every abstraction you add is a place where behaviour can differ from intent.

Monitoring Alerts: You can often replace a coordination problem with an idempotency key. Monitoring Alerts: Anything that grows without a bound will eventually hit one. Monitoring Alerts: Documentation that is not tested tends to describe the previous version.

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For schema markup, the constraint matters more than the feature list. If a metric has no owner, it will drift until it causes an incident. Teams working on schema markup usually discover this the hard way. The cheapest optimisation is usually removing work nobody asked for. Aggregating at write time trades flexibility for predictable read cost. This is most visible in schema markup.

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Serving static bytes is the cheapest thing you can do at the edge. The same reasoning holds for cloud infrastructure. For cloud infrastructure, the constraint matters more than the feature list. A schema is an interface; changing it is a migration, not an edit. Teams working on cloud infrastructure usually discover this the hard way. Track the denominator as carefully as the numerator.

Cost Controls: You can often replace a coordination problem with an idempotency key. Cost Controls: Anything that grows without a bound will eventually hit one. Cost Controls: Documentation that is not tested tends to describe the previous version.

Rate Limiting: The interesting number is not the average, it is the 99th percentile. Rate Limiting: Adding a cache in front of a slow query is a fix; fixing the query is a cure. Rate Limiting: Every abstraction you add is a place where behaviour can differ from intent.

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