The API Podcast with Fexingo: REST, GraphQL, and Modern Web APIs

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The API Podcast with Fexingo: REST, GraphQL, and Modern Web APIs

Every week, Lucas and Luna sit down at a developer-focused office workstation to trace how applications actually talk to each other — not the hype, but the design decisions, trade-offs, and real-world failures that shape modern API architecture. Lucas, with a journalist's precision, lays out why a team chose REST over GraphQL for a payments pipeline handling 50,000 requests per second, or how a poorly designed endpoint caused a cascade failure in a major ride-hailing service. Luna, the engaged interlocutor, pushes back: when does schema flexibility become a liability? How do versioning strategies survive a decade of production use? Together, they dissect public postmortems, API design docs, and developer surveys — not to sell a tool, but to understand the engineering logic behind each choice. This show is for backend engineers, API product managers, and technical leads who need to decide, not just follow the trend. Expect no demos, no code walkthroughs — just two smart people reasoning about trade-offs in stateless design, pagination patterns, rate-limiting, and the cost of backward compatibility. By the end of each episode, you'll have a clearer framework for your own decisions: Should your next endpoint be a query or a mutation? When does an SDK become a maintenance burden? And how do you design an API that your colleagues will still respect five years from now?

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Episodes

22 episodes

How API Gateways Became Traffic Cops You Never Hired

May 31, 2026 · 9:34
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How Twilio Defends Against Toll Fraud Attacks

May 30, 2026 · 7:44
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How APIs Use Semantic Versioning to Prevent Breaking Changes

May 30, 2026 · 7:45
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How APIs Use Feature Flags to Deploy Without Downtime

May 29, 2026 · 7:40
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How Idempotency Keys Prevent API Payment Disasters

May 29, 2026 · 9:04
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How to Design API Error Responses Your Developers Will Thank You For

May 28, 2026 · 12:05
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How Stripe and Twilio Use API Schema Design for Developer Experience

May 28, 2026 · 8:03
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How APIs Can Be Exploited Through Business Logic Abuse

May 27, 2026 · 9:37
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How Netflix Built Chaos Engineering for APIs

May 27, 2026 · 9:37
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Rate Limiting Done Right How GitHub Manages API Traffic

May 26, 2026 · 8:49
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How Stripe Handles Millions of Requests Per Second with Idempotency

May 26, 2026 · 9:31
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How Stripe Built an API That Handles Millions of Requests Per Second

May 25, 2026 · 8:12
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Why API Documentation Is Your Most Important Endpoint

May 25, 2026 · 9:07
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How APIs Changed the Way We Design Search Endpoints

May 24, 2026 · 8:52
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How Twilio Built an API That Developers Actually Love

May 24, 2026 · 9:44
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Why Your API Gateway Is Slowing You Down

May 23, 2026 · 9:26
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How PayPal Killed Its Own API Developer Experience

May 23, 2026 · 9:54
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API Rate Limiting Is Not Your Enemy

May 22, 2026 · 11:42
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The Hidden Cost of API Versioning at Scale

May 22, 2026 · 8:11
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Why Webhooks Beat Polling for Real-Time Data

May 21, 2026 · 6:06
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Why REST Still Beats GraphQL for 80 Percent of APIs

May 21, 2026 · 8:03
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The Billion Dollar API Mistake Stripe Almost Made

May 19, 2026 · 10:51
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