http://peti.to/tags/api/Recent content in API on Ben PetitoHugo -- gohugo.ioenSun, 16 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0930http://peti.to/posts/api-for-everything-at-once/Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0930http://peti.to/posts/api-for-everything-at-once/<p>A client had been bulk-loading data straight into the database with SQL, to speed up onboarding new customers. It&rsquo;s a reasonable instinct, SQL is fast and easily repeatable with minimal effort, but writing directly to the database skips the permission checks, validation and auditing the application does for you. So I suggested our platform&rsquo;s built-in REST API instead, and built them a Postman collection to try it. Somewhere in the testing they sent off a couple of requests with no page size on them, and the development server ran out of memory and fell over. Then it did it again.</p>