API Development
Articles, guides and tutorials on building and consuming APIs, covering REST, GraphQL, API design principles and developer best practices.
Supplier Portal Integration: Scope, Controls and Costs
Plan supplier portal integration across orders, availability and substitutions. Compare approaches, acceptance tests and costs before requesting a quote.
Continue ReadingEcommerce Incident Recovery: Orders, Access and Integrations
Plan ecommerce incident recovery around orders, payments and integrations. Learn what to verify, what repair work to scope and how to request a quote.
Continue ReadingEnterprise Software Development Services: What You Are Buying
What the word enterprise actually commits a supplier to, from uptime and recovery objectives through procurement and certification to the exit clause.
Continue ReadingAI Agent Payments: What Agentic Commerce Means for Merchants
What has actually shipped in agentic commerce, what it changes for your checkout and your bot rules, and the three cheap things worth doing this year.
Continue ReadingSalesforce Integration: Limits, Rails and Real Cost
What actually breaks in a Salesforce integration: the org-wide API request allocation, Apex governor limits, the data model traps, and what the work costs.
Continue ReadingPassword Storage: What to Use in 2026
Which hashing algorithm to choose and with what parameters, why a salt is not enough on its own, and the storage mistakes that survive for years.
Continue ReadingAPI Versioning: When to Break and How Not To
When an API change is genuinely breaking, why URL versions are not the only option, and how to retire an old version without losing clients.
Continue ReadingDatabase Performance: Finding the Query That Is Killing You
Most slow applications are one or two bad queries away from being fast. How to find them, read the query plan, and fix the cause not the symptom.
Continue ReadingFine-Tuning vs RAG vs Prompting: What Each Costs
Fine-tuning, RAG or a better prompt? What each approach actually fixes, what it costs to build and run, and the order to try them in to avoid wasted budget.
Continue ReadingMoving Off OpenAI: What an Open-Weight Switch Costs
Moving off OpenAI to an open-weight model: what actually transfers, what quietly breaks, how to run a fair comparison, and when the saving is real.
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