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Learn about API mocking, mock servers, and best practices for testing and development
What is API Latency and How to Test It
Your API returns the correct data. Your tests pass. Everything works perfectly—until it doesn't. Users start complaining that the app feels slow. Pages take forever to load. Buttons don't respond. The API is working, but it's working slowly. This is the latency problem, and it's one of the most comm
6 min readUnderstanding HTTP Status Codes
Every time your application makes an API request, the server responds with a three-digit number. This number—the HTTP status code—tells you exactly what happened. Did the request succeed? Did something go wrong? Is the resource somewhere else? Understanding these codes is fundamental to building rel
6 min readMock Server vs Real API: When to Use Which
You're building a new feature. It needs data from an API—maybe your own backend, maybe a third-party service. The API isn't ready yet. Or it's rate-limited. Or it costs money per request. Or it's just slow and makes your development cycle painful. This is the daily reality of modern software develop
6 min readWhat is Chaos Engineering
Every developer has experienced it: the application works perfectly in development, passes all tests, and then crashes spectacularly in production. A payment API times out. A database returns null where it shouldn't. A third-party service rate-limits your requests. These failures are inevitable in d
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