Scaling Event-Driven Background Workers with BullMQ and Valkey
Offload compute-heavy background tasks from the HTTP event loop using BullMQ and Valkey on Linux, managing concurrency, retries, and job telemetry.
API & Automation7 min read
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API & Automation
40 practical API & Automation articles from Netbay Engineering — written for operators running Linux and Windows VPS in India.
40 articles in this topic
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API Contract Testing and Linting with OpenAPI 3.1 and Spectral
Automate API quality and prevent breaking changes using OpenAPI 3.1 specifications, Spectral ruleset linting, and Schemathesis property testing.
API & Automation6 min read
High-Concurrency API Rate Limiting Using Redis Generic Cell Rate Algorithm
Protect API endpoints from abuse using the Generic Cell Rate Algorithm (GCRA) and Redis/Valkey, delivering millisecond enforcement and RFC 7807 headers.
API & Automation7 min read
Building Resilient Webhook Delivery Engines with Idempotency Keys
Architect a fault-tolerant webhook delivery system featuring HMAC-SHA256 signature verification, idempotency keys, and jittered exponential backoff.
API & Automation8 min read
Throttling, Budgets, and Abuse Detection for Public APIs
Protect public endpoints with rate limiting, cost budgets, and anomaly detection that surface abuse before it drains your API capacity.
API & Automation8 min read
Getting Started with the Netbay Developer V1 API
Learn how to automate VPS deployment, query IP stock, and manage proxy credentials using X-API-Key and X-API-Secret authentication.
API & Automation4 min read
A Practical First Automation Project, End to End
Build a complete first automation project: inventory, an idempotent playbook, a dry-run, a real apply, and a scheduled re-converge.
API & Automation8 min read
Input Validation and Payload Size Limits
Apply layered input validation and payload limits to stop malformed data, injection, and oversized request attacks against your API endpoints.
API & Automation7 min read
Logging for API Security Without Leaking Secrets
Log the signals that catch attackers while redacting tokens, keys, and personal data from your API event stream before it leaks to anyone.
API & Automation7 min read
Testing Infrastructure Code: Linting, Validation, and Dry-Runs
Guard infrastructure changes with four gates: lint the code, validate syntax, dry-run against real state, and gate applies on the result.
API & Automation8 min read
CORS: What It Protects and Common Misconfigurations
Understand the same-origin policy, preflight requests, and the CORS mistakes that silently expose your API to arbitrary origins and attackers.
API & Automation7 min read
Secrets in Configuration Management Systems
Keep passwords and API keys out of git with Ansible Vault, sensitive Terraform variables, and rotation habits that work with real systems.
API & Automation8 min read