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Editor's pickFollow API-provided next URLs safely. Learn cursor vs. offset pagination, Link headers, trusted-host validation, HTTPS, and credential handling in clients.
Learn why duplicate query parameters return different values across services, how first, last, and list parsing work, and how to prevent parameter-pollution bugs.
Learn to configure Node.js API rate limiting with express-rate-limit, return 429 responses, set headers, trust proxies safely, and scale across instances.
Learn how to choose rate-limit algorithms, identify clients safely, configure proxy trust, return 429 responses, and handle distributed deployments.
Learn how API keys leak from public GitHub repositories and how to prevent exposure with secure storage, least privilege, scanning, and prompt rotation.