SproutStack🌱 System Design (Beginner) · Foundations · cozy lesson
API Design Basics
10 min · 1 min read · no scary math, promise
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GET /orders?cursor=…&limit=50, POST /payments with Idempotency-Key. Version via /v1, errors {code,message,retryable}. Throttle 429 + Retry-After.
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1. Idempotent means…
2. List pagination?
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