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The AEP Project provides API design specifications and tooling for protobuf and HTTP REST APIs, hosted on GitHub.
The author discusses the architectural challenge of designing both MCP and CLI interfaces, weighing the benefits of mirroring capabilities versus leveraging the unique strengths of each (composability for CLI, safety/auditability for MCP).
The article discusses the complexities of implementing idempotency in APIs, arguing that handling edge cases like concurrent requests and content mismatches is harder than simple replay caching.
The article examines the pitfalls of altering API behavior depending on the linked SDK version, using Windows' CoInitializeSecurity as a case study. It discusses issues with DLL version mismatches and tail call optimization that complicate this approach.