Core topic
Rate limits, monitoring, error tracking and incident response for APIs
7 guides
mcp · model-context-protocol · ai-agents
A practical, opinionated guide for indie developers on retrying failed Model Context Protocol tool calls safely, covering idempotency keys, distinguishing transient errors from real failures, and avoiding duplicate work when an MCP request times out after the server already ran.
api monitoring · synthetic monitoring · uptime monitoring
A founder's decision guide to picking between cheap uptime pings and full synthetic API monitoring — what each catches, what they cost at low traffic, and when the upgrade pays for itself.
api reliability · rate limits · upstream apis
A practical guide for indie developers and small teams on modeling burst vs. sustained API usage, detecting burn-rate risk early, and preventing quota exhaustion before customers see an outage.
api deprecation · sunset http header · api versioning
A practical guide for solo founders and small teams on announcing API deprecation cleanly, using Deprecation and Sunset HTTP headers, and keeping old versions alive without ballooning maintenance cost.
api monitoring · synthetic monitoring · indie developers
A grounded guide for indie developers on synthetic API monitoring — what assertions actually catch failures, how to keep checks cheap at low traffic, where hosted runners beat a local cron job, and when synthetic checks are worth the setup.
api-versioning · indie-developer · rest-apiVideo
A decision guide for indie developers choosing an API versioning approach: URI path versus header versus query parameter, what deprecation actually requires, and how small teams keep multiple versions alive without ballooning maintenance cost.
mcp server rate limiting · mcp server uptime monitoring · mcp server cost control
A practical, opinionated guide for solo founders running their own MCP servers on how to set per-client rate limits, control token costs, idle-shutdown cheaply, and add uptime checks that actually work over HTTP and SSE.