Most developers learn APIs. 📌
Experienced engineers learn when to use them.
Early in my career, I mostly thought about APIs as:
GET → POST → PUT → DELETE
But once you start working on real systems, the interesting questions become:
→ REST or GraphQL?
→ Public or internal?
→ Synchronous or asynchronous communication?
→ Partner integration or your own API?
→ Do you need strict enterprise contracts?
→ Should this data even be exposed through an API?
That's when you realise there isn't just one type of API.
Different API patterns solve different problems.
REST
→ Applications and services
GraphQL
→ Flexible data fetching
SOAP
→ Enterprise integrations
Internal APIs
→ Service-to-service communication
Partner APIs
→ External integrations
B2B APIs
→ Business system connectivity
Data APIs
→ Sharing data across platforms
The syntax is the easy part.
The difficult part is choosing the right interface for the system you're building.
That's why API design is such an important part of backend development and system design interviews.
Sharing this visual as a quick reference for anyone learning backend engineering.
Fellow Kenyans, here is the link to the Report of the National Taskforce on Improvement of the Terms and Conditions of Service and Other Reforms for Members of the National Police Service, Kenya Prisons Service and National Youth Service, widely referred to as the Maraga Taskforce report:
https://t.co/6ATPBmSJyf
#Ukombozi2027
Death In A Bottle:
Joshua Kamau's life took an unexpected turn after drinking what he thought was ordinary alcohol.
Shortly after his drink, on returning home, his body began showing severe symptoms.
"When I went for a long call on the 4th day, I had a black long call, black like charcoal..."
#NTVWeekendEdition @Karanja_Ibrah
Barack Obama Senior travelled to the University of Hawaii in September 1959, met and married Ann Dunham, who bore him a son, Barry (Barack Obama Jnr), before he graduated at the top of his economics class. Barack subsequently joined the prestigious Ivy League institution Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for his postgraduate studies and began dating Ruth Baker. Auma Obama recounts her father’s difficult journey from Harvard-trained economist to a troubled political insider in Kenya. #NationGender https://t.co/02uoEo4GzR
The economy has become so unforgiving that it is now affecting everyone including the agents of Yehova Wanyonyi. Nobody is being spared. Even those who took vows to serve the Lord are now checking their career options. Anastacia has been a nun for the past eight years, faithfully serving the Church and along the way, encountering temptations of all shapes and sizes juu huku injee mapadri wamebeba makagare hapana macheso.
One day she couldn't say no to the temptations & she started receiving high voltage electricity without an iota of blackouts from padri who was apparently fighting his own private battle with Lust.
The two allegedly embarked on a secret three year fellowship of praise and worship. And when I say praise and worship, let’s just say the clapping was not always done with hands, but other organs located within the ozone layer.
But daughter of Agrippina has now thrown in the towel. She has reportedly decided that enough is enough, she can no longer pretend that she has been called to a life of celibacy when her heart is clearly interested in a different ministry of horizontal engineering.
Anastacia has now decided to leave religious life and venture into the wines & spirits business. She has also issued a warning that anyone who continues calling her Sister should be prepared for an encounter that may require immediate divine intervention. She insists she is no longer living the religious life.
Anastacia claims she has already received marriage proposals from 80 men. At this rate, the Catholic church needs to hold a special recruitment drive for the remaining sisters because kutu ma kutu na sidiii ndani ya parokia. Kama kawa sisi walala hoii hatuna maoni kabisa, Letu Jicho tu.👀
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✅ Day 6 – Data Structures
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💬 Which day are you on right now?
🚨 WE EXPOSED IT FIRST.
While the system slept, we were already in the lab.
Months ago between January& April, we started testing medicines that Kenyans take every day, Postinor, amoxicillin, blood pressure tablets. The packaging looked perfect. The tablets looked real. But when we ran the HPTLC screening, the results hit different.
Red flags everywhere.
We didn’t stay quiet. In March, we went public. We named the drugs. We warned that counterfeit medicine is one of the biggest silent killers in Kenya right now. We begged KEMSA and the authorities to wake up.
Many ignored us. Some mocked us even as we did fundraisers to expand testing. A few supported us quietly.
Today, the Ministry of Health and Pharmacy and Poisons Board finally dropped the official alert:
Fake Postinor-2, batch T34197R, is flooding the market. The exact kind of product our early tests had already flagged.
Two people arrested. Investigation ongoing.
They confirmed what we raised first.
This is not luck. This is what happens when ordinary people refuse to look away. ( i have attached the letter in replies)
We tested when no one was watching.
We spoke when it was uncomfortable.
We forced the system to move.
Fake medicine doesn’t just steal money - it steals lives, futures, and trust.
We are not done. More tests are coming. More truth is coming.
If you believe Kenyans deserve real medicine, and that those who risk speaking first should never stand alone… Speak up, support through our link or till number.. & share the alert with other Kenyans, let's force govt to act
Let them know the people are watching.
We’re just getting started.
I think next year’s drama festival should be held at the Neno Evangelism Center.
These people should be at the National Theatre.
Who will save the masses from these comedians and actors
STOP ASKING YOUR WIFE"HOW WAS WORK OR HOW WAS YOUR DAY."
She will always say "fine" every single time.
A psychologist told me to replace it with one of these 4 instead (They always make her open up):