/rest-api-design

Implement correct, fast API pagination — cursor vs offset trade-offs, opaque cursor encoding, stable sort keys, page-size limits, total-count costs, and consumer-side iteration that survives inserts, deletes, and retries. With runnable cursor checks.

Deep reference for caching — what to cache, cache-aside vs read/write-through/write-behind, TTLs with jitter, eviction (LRU/LFU/FIFO), invalidation, and surviving stampedes (thundering herd / dogpile). Worked examples and a runnable jitter check.

Write Conventional Commits — the type(scope)!: subject + body + footer spec — so history is readable and changelogs and SemVer bumps can be derived automatically. Use when committing, configuring commitlint, designing release tooling, or deciding feat vs fix vs breaking change.

How to write safe, reversible, zero-downtime database schema migrations — additive-first changes, the expand/migrate/contract pattern, batched backfills, concurrent index builds, safe NOT NULL, rollbacks, and the locking pitfalls that cause outages. A deep reference with

How to handle errors explicitly and consistently across an app — validate at boundaries, classify operational vs programmer errors, add context while propagating, retry transient failures with backoff, and never swallow. Covers JS/Python/Go/Rust patterns with runnable checks.

Run git collaboration that scales — trunk-based vs git-flow decided by deploy cadence, branch protection and required checks, PR sizing and review etiquette, monorepo vs polyrepo trade-offs, release branches and hotfixes, and history hygiene with disciplined merges.