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Moesif
Company blog · moesif.com/blogprogrammingweb
Moesif is the company blog at moesif.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2016, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “A technical deep dive on Meltdown. Does it actually work?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Moesif's blog for free API design and development resources, plus articles on CORS, GraphQL, SDK design and security. One commenter says they enjoy reading it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- A technical deep dive on Meltdown. Does it actually work?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-01-06
- REST vs. GraphQL APIs, the Good, the Bad, the Ugly3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-07-06
- /2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-10-11
- Designing Good Static REST API Documentation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-05
What Hacker News says?
Rarely does a application actually need to enable CORS. If all of your webcalls are from the same domain YOU DONT NEED CORS. (Chatbots/socket.io) You only need CORS if you need the browser to act as a middleman to pass information back. IE: Credit Card Payment IFRAME If you screw up CORS implementation it just means that anyone can read any information set by your website. https://www.moesif.com/blog/technical/cors/…
Comment linking /blog/technical/cors/Authoritative-Guide-to-CORS-Cross-Origin-Resource-Sharing-for-REST-APIs/
on “Developers don't understand CORS”Submitted Authentication for RESTful APIs, HTML5 Security as a story · 26 points
HN discussionMoesif | API Analytics for engineers and developer relations ( https://www.moesif.com ) Onsite in SF or Bay Area. Required Skills: - Passionate about the API economy and serverless computing - Experience working on modern backend systems and frameworks using languages such as Scala (preferred), Java, and functional languages - Experience working with large installations of Cassandra, HBase, ElasticSearch, or similar…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)”Submitted Best Practices for Versioning REST and GraphQL APIs as a story · 11 points
HN discussionA small comparison: https://www.moesif.com/blog/graphql/technical/Ways-To-Add-Gr...
Comment linking /blog/graphql/technical/Ways-To-Add-GraphQL-To-Your-Postgres-Database-Comparing-Hasura-Prisma-and-Others/
on “Hasura raises $9.9M to simplify GraphQL”Submitted A technical deep dive on Meltdown. Does it actually work? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionJust want to share an technical article about meltdown with things that isn't covered in the white paper. https://www.moesif.com/blog/technical/cpu-arch/What-Is-The-A...
Comment linking /blog/technical/cpu-arch/What-Is-The-Actual-Vulnerability-Behind-Meltdown/
on “Meltdown and Spectre”Submitted REST vs. GraphQL APIs, the Good, the Bad, the Ugly as a story · 5 points
HN discussionMoesif has many free resources for API design, development, and maintenence. https://www.moesif.com/blog/api-guide/
Comment linking /blog/api-guide/
on “Ask HN: Suggestions for books about API design?”Submitted A guide on API Analytics to grow platform businesses as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWe at Moesif ( https://www.moesif.com/solutions/track-third-party-api ) released a similar tool in 2017 and found that many of our customers including Deloitte, UPS, Snap Kitchen, iFit, and Trung's previous company, Snap Kitchen were looking for a way to track APIs without the complexity of a full service mesh like Envoy. Especially if you're hosted in something that cannot run an on-prem service mesh or gateway. We…
Comment linking /solutions/track-third-party-api
on “Launch HN: API Tracker (YC W20) – Track and manage the APIs you use”Submitted REST API Design Best Practices for Sub and Nested Resources as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis article could help: https://www.moesif.com/blog/technical/sdks/Best-Practices-fo...
Comment linking /blog/technical/sdks/Best-Practices-for-Building-SDKs-for-APIs/
on “Ask HN: Best practices (and examples) for designing client libraries for APIs?”Submitted Generating REST APIs from GraphQL Schemas as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMaybe Moesif could be worth a look too: https://www.moesif.com/features/api-monitoring (Disclaimer: I blog for them)
Comment linking /features/api-monitoring
on “Tools for REST API Monitoring in 2019”Submitted Build vs Buy: API Management as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIs REST perfect? Probably not. But it certainly does its job, and that's why most middle-tier APIs these days, whether it be those that power web applications or mobile apps, are in REST, with the backend itself being written in a variety of languages (PHP, Python, Java, C#, etc). I will admit that core REST doesn't support basic "querying" functionality, or even things like pagination, filtering, sorting, etc, whic…
Comment linking /blog/technical/api-design/REST-API-Design-Filtering-Sorting-and-Pagination/
on “GraphQL Didn't Kill REST”Submitted Authoritative Guide to CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) for REST APIs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionScala is definitly a cool language to learn. I like the type safety in statically typed language, and Java is just too verbose. Scala + Play Framework + Akka is solid. We use scala for parts of our pipeline for https://www.moesif.com Docker is definitly up there also with Docker Swarm/Compose, etc. Just a matter of time as Docker Cloud and the whole Container as a Service area is fully matured. I like Kubernetes on…
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on “Ask HN: What technologies are you guys excited about?”Submitted Show HN: A Free 3rd Party API Status Dashboard as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCheck out https://www.moesif.com , if youre interested in analytics. If you're interested in the audit logging /security angle, also check out https://apptrail.com (Disclaimer: founder).
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on “Ask HN: How to Log API Usage Statistics?”Submitted HTTP-API Integration with React Lifecycle Methods and Hooks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMy company is actually going through the transition to cursor/keyset pagination. As a SaaS company starts having to support larger customers, they will likely have to go through this exercise. The reason is because most pagination is usually implemented with LIMIT/OFFSET in a SQL query. Using OFFSET becomes very expensive for pagination queries because the query has gotta do a full scan till it reaches the desired o…
Comment linking /blog/technical/api-design/REST-API-Design-Filtering-Sorting-and-Pagination/
on “Ask HN: How developer friendly is APIs with cursor based pagination?”Submitted REST vs. GraphQL APIs, the Good, the Bad, the Ugly as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNot a book but I enjoy https://www.moesif.com/blog/
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on “Ask HN: What are some great books around API design for $CURRENT_YEAR?”Submitted In depth explanation of what exactly is the vulnerability of Meltdown as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Designing Good Static REST API Documentation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Developer Relations and What Are Common Roles? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted In Depth Guide to Serverless APIs with AWS Lambda and AWS API Gateway as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted REST vs. GraphQL APIs, the Good, the Bad, the Ugly as a story · 1 points
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