Laurentiu Delcea

Laurentiu Delcea

I work with data, building backend systems that work.

📍 Romania

Monthly suggestion - Build a load testing tool

For this monthly suggestion, we are going with a small load testing tool. We will need to create and consume APIs. A repository layer is a must and we have to use the concurrency provided by our chosen language.

Hello cURL for beginners

We are going to discuss the basics of sending HTTP requests from your terminal. For this, we’ll use cURL, a popular command-line tool for passing data from a client to a server.

Mock endpoints for your APIs

If you want to build over a backend that relies on APIs that are not yet built, you can create a mock endpoint. Just define how the request and the response should look like.

When to enable HTTP Compression

We should consider this overlooked aspect in every system that deals with a lot of HTTP calls, and I’ll tell you a simple reason: network traffic is not free.