#api-integration
33 episodes
#4499: Twilio for Small Business: IVRs, SIP & Phone Trees
How to build professional phone systems with Twilio — IVRs, round-robin routing, voicemail transcription, and SIP setup.
#4471: What's Actually Behind the API Endpoint?
How OpenAI, Stripe, and Netflix actually manage APIs at millions of requests per second.
#4450: Intercepting Claude Code: The Proxy Ecosystem
How middleware proxies intercept, reroute, and transform AI tool traffic — and what it means for users.
#4352: What If Banks Just Handled the Plumbing?
What if banks stopped trying to be good at customer experience and just handled the settlement infrastructure?
#4188: Find the Quietest Time to Drive Using Google's API
Query Google's Routes API to find statistically optimal driving times in Jerusalem — no gut feelings required.
#4167: Why AI Can’t Read Your Gmail (Yet)
Your AI misses emails and fails to send replies. It’s not dumb—the pipes are leaky.
#4166: Why Your AI Can't Find That Email
Your AI assistant misses emails because of API limits, not intelligence gaps.
#3684: Your Home Inventory Can’t Order Groceries (Yet)
Supermarkets have APIs, but they’re not for you. Here’s how AI agents are changing the game.
#3278: How to Get Early AI Model Access as a Solo Developer
How a solo developer spending $300/month can get early access to new AI models before the press release.
#2923: Structured Outputs: Taming AI's Token Lottery
Why prompt engineering isn't enough to get consistent JSON from LLMs.
#2829: The Missing CRUD Framework for Real Code
What actually gives you a real starting point for internal tools — not a platform, not a service, but code you own and deploy.
#2822: Serverless E-Commerce: Medusa, Saleor, and Vendure
Three open-source headless commerce engines that make serverless e-commerce actually viable.
#2773: Beyond Static Fallbacks: Agentic Error Handling in AI Pipelines
From try-except blocks to planning agents that route around failures intelligently.
#2691: The Usability Tax of Least Privilege
Is it time to let AI agents handle your API key creation and rotation? We explore the real security tradeoffs.
#2543: Why Base64 Adds 33% Overhead (And Why You Still Need It)
Base64 isn’t compression — it’s a safe transport encoding. Here’s how it works with audio APIs and where its limits are.
#2541: Agent-to-Agent Scheduling: Building the Calendly for AI
How Google's A2A protocol and Anthropic's Remote MCP could power a new kind of agent handoff for scheduling meetings.
#2511: Measuring AI API Latency Through the Black Box
How to benchmark token throughput and debug slowdowns in closed CLI tools like Claude Code using OpenTelemetry and mitmproxy.
#2503: The Gap Between Your Mental Model and the Wire
What really happens when you press Enter on a URL? From DNS to TLS to headers, we break down the full lifecycle.
#2496: Are Hidden API Endpoints Leaks or Just Plumbing?
When LLM agents discover unauthenticated JSON endpoints in browser DevTools, is it a security breach or just reading the page?
#2468: When Tokens Meet GPU Seconds
How to track AI spend across Open Router, Replicate, and more — without a unified dashboard.
#2467: The Time Tax on API Access
How OpenAI and Anthropic structure API tiers, rate limits, and why your billing history matters more than you think.
#2441: When One Sentence Beats Four Clicks
What happens when you ditch the admin panel and let AI agents manage your systems directly?
#2352: The Structured Output Gap in Vision APIs
How do object detection APIs like Gemini, AWS Rekognition, and YOLO compare for automated annotation workflows?
#2251: Agent-to-Agent Protocols: What Actually Needs Standardizing
When autonomous agents call other agents, what does a working protocol actually require? Exploring session handling, state management, security, an...