Api-Design

Header Spoofing Can't Fake a TLS Fingerprint

A realistic User-Agent didn’t help. A full browser session didn’t help. Headless Chromium didn’t help. The scraper I never needed to build taught me more than the one I shipped would have.

Internal Workflows Deserve Their Own Stack

Internal traffic should travel an independent path at every layer – gateway, pods, database – not just live behind a different URL prefix.

Stop Returning 200 OK for Everything

HTTP status codes are a contract consumed by clients, load balancers, monitoring, and caches. When you return 200 OK for partial failures, every one of these systems is blind.

Hybris OCC: A REST Facade Over a Stateful Monolith

SAP Commerce OCC promises a stateless REST API for headless commerce. Underneath, every request hydrates an HTTP session and routes through the same stateful facades built for the JSP storefront. The API is stateless in contract but stateful in implementation.