API Security Best Practices Every Developer Should Know

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APIs are the backbone of modern software. They power mobile apps, connect microservices, expose data to partners, and drive entire business ecosystems. And yet, APIs are also one of the most commonly exploited attack surfaces in the wild.

Whether you're a startup shipping your first REST API or a platform team managing hundreds of internal services, the fundamentals of API security don't change. What does change is how thoroughly they're applied.

Here's a breakdown of 12 best practices that should be non-negotiable on any serious API project.

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6 Patterns of Cache

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Cache Doesn't Make Your System Faster. It Just Moves the Complexity Somewhere Else.

There's a dangerous misconception in software engineering: that adding a cache is a performance solution. It isn't. It's a trade-off – one that swaps database load for a new set of problems around consistency, failure modes, and operational complexity.

Every caching decision ultimately comes down to one question: who is responsible for writing to the cache, and when does that write happen?

Answer that question differently and you get six distinct patterns. Each one makes sense in a specific context and falls apart in others. Here's a map of all six – not just what they are, but why you'd reach for each one.

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The GitHub Repository Every Claude Code User Needs to Bookmark

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There's a moment every Claude Code user eventually hits. You've gotten comfortable with the basics, you've written a few solid prompts, maybe you've even set up a CLAUDE.md file. And then you realize: I have no idea what I'm missing.

That's where awesome-claude-code comes in.

Created and maintained by GitHub user hesreallyhim, this repository has become the de facto community hub for Claude Code power users – a hand-curated collection of skills, hooks, slash commands, agent orchestrators, workflows, tooling, and plugins that extend what Claude Code can do. At the time of writing, it sits at ~47,000 stars and nearly 4,000 forks, and it's growing fast.

This is not an auto-scraped list of everything on GitHub. It's a judgment-driven curation. Tools that don't work get cut. Tools that do work get tagged with what they're actually useful for. That distinction matters more than it sounds.

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Important Claude Code Permission Modes Every Developer Should Know

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When Anthropic shipped Claude Code, they weren't just releasing a coding assistant. They were releasing an agent framework – and with that comes a fundamental question every agentic system must answer: who decides what the AI is allowed to do?

The answer in Claude Code is a layered permission system with seven distinct modes. Each mode represents a different stance on the autonomy-safety tradeoff. Most are user-selectable. Two are not – and for good reason.

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MVCC Explained: Help Your Database NOT Freeze When Someone Else Hits “Update”

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Ever wondered how thousands of users can read and write to the same database table at the same time without everything grinding to a halt? The answer, in most modern databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL/InnoDB, Oracle, and others), is a clever mechanism called MVCC – Multiversion Concurrency Control.

Let’s break it down in plain language, with a simple example you’ll never forget.

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