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The Developer Tools Podcast with Fexingo: APIs, Infrastructure, and Software for Engineers

The Developer Tools Podcast with Fexingo: APIs, Infrastructure, and Software for Engineers

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Lucas and Luna examine the developer tools landscape — APIs, infrastructure, and software designed for engineers — through the lens of business viability and technical merit. Each episode picks a specific tool or platform: how it was built, what problem it solves, who pays for it, and whether its architecture gives it a durable advantage. They compare pricing models, study public SDKs and changelogs, and trace the decisions that turn an open-source side project into a billion-dollar company. No demos, no tutorials — just two co-hosts reading documentation, running benchmarks, and asking whether a tool's design actually makes engineers more productive or just more dependent. Past topics: the economics of API gateways, why gRPC is replacing REST in microservices, the rise of WebAssembly beyond the browser, and the hidden costs of managed Kubernetes. Listeners walk away with a concrete framework for evaluating developer tools — not as a user, but as a buyer, builder, or investor. What does it take for infrastructure software to earn the trust of engineers who have seen too many promises break in production? #DeveloperTools #APIs #Infrastructure #SoftwareEngineering #CloudComputing #OpenSourceBusiness #GRPC #WebAssembly #Kubernetes #SDKs #DevOps #PlatformEngineering #Technology #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #Business #EngineeringPodcast #TechBusiness Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo© 2026 Fexingo. All rights reserved. Economie
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  • Why Your API Should Use GraphQL Subscriptions for Live Updates

    Why Your API Should Use GraphQL Subscriptions for Live Updates
    Jul 19 2026
    Episode 120 of The Developer Tools Podcast explores why REST-based polling is outdated for real-time features like live dashboards and collaborative editing. Lucas and Luna break down how GraphQL subscriptions use WebSocket connections to push only changed data, reducing bandwidth by up to 90% compared to polling. They walk through a real-world case: a logistics company that cut server costs by 40% after switching from REST polling to subscriptions for their shipment tracking dashboard. The hosts also discuss trade-offs: connection state management, backpressure, and when to fall back to polling. If you've ever built a feature that needed 'live' updates, this episode explains why subscriptions are the pattern you're missing. #GraphQL #Subscriptions #WebSockets #RealTime #API #Backend #DeveloperTools #BusinessAndTechnology #SoftwareEngineering #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #LiveUpdates #Polling #Performance #Scalability #Logistics #CaseStudy #DevTools Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    8 min
  • Why Your API Should Use a Webhook Registry Pattern

    Why Your API Should Use a Webhook Registry Pattern
    Jul 18 2026
    Webhooks are everywhere — but most teams manage them like tribal knowledge buried in siloed code. This episode explains why a webhook registry pattern — a central, versioned, discoverable store of every webhook your API sends — solves the chaos. Lucas walks through how Stripe and GitHub each tackled webhook sprawl, and why a $15/month open-source tool like Hookdeck is reshaping how small teams think about reliability. Luna pushes back on the maintenance tax, and they land on a practical balance for teams of 5 to 50 engineers. A concrete pattern for anyone shipping events. #Webhooks #WebhookRegistry #API #APIArchitecture #SoftwareEngineering #EventDriven #DeveloperTools #Stripe #GitHub #Hookdeck #APIReliability #DeveloperExperience #BusinessAndTechnology #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #TheDeveloperToolsPodcast #Engineering #PatternCatalog Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    7 min
  • Why Your API Should Use Async Pagination for Real-Time Data

    Why Your API Should Use Async Pagination for Real-Time Data
    Jul 18 2026
    Lucas and Luna dive into the limitations of traditional pagination for real-time APIs. Using the example of a stock-price feed that updates every second, Lucas explains how offset-based pagination fails when data changes between requests. He introduces cursor-based pagination with a unique, time-ordered key and explains why it avoids duplicates and gaps in volatile datasets. Luna questions the implementation complexity and caching implications. The episode also touches on combining async pagination with WebSockets for live streams, and the trade-off between consistency and throughput. A focused, practical episode for developers building data-intensive APIs. #AsyncPagination #CursorBasedPagination #RealTimeAPI #APIDesign #DataConsistency #WebSockets #PaginationStrategy #OffsetVsCursor #LiveDataStreams #APIReliability #BackendEngineering #DeveloperTools #BusinessAndTechnology #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #LucasAndLuna #APIPatterns #TechDeepDive Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    10 min
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