Confession of a converted skeptic

When Anthropic announced the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in November 2024, my first reaction was: “Ah, another protocol promising to solve all integration problems”. As a DevOps Manager who has seen dozens of “universal standards” born and die, I have reasons to be skeptical.

But after several months watching MCP be massively adopted - OpenAI integrated it in March 2025, Google DeepMind in April - I decided to investigate beyond the hype. And I have to admit something: I was wrong.

Idempotency in Laravel: How to Avoid Duplicates in Your APIs with Elegance

In modern API development, one of the most critical challenges is ensuring that operations don’t execute multiple times accidentally. Imagine a user making a payment and, due to connectivity issues, clicking the “Pay” button multiple times. Without proper measures, you might process multiple payments for the same transaction. This is where idempotency comes into play.

What is Idempotency?

Idempotency is a mathematical concept applied to programming that guarantees that an operation produces the same result regardless of how many times it’s executed. In the context of APIs, it means you can make the same request multiple times without causing additional side effects.

CookieStore API: The Async Future of Cookie Management in JavaScript

For decades, web developers have depended on the old and limited document.cookie interface to handle cookies in the browser. This synchronous API, with its peculiar string syntax, has been a source of frustration and errors. But that’s changing with the arrival of CookieStore API, a modern and asynchronous interface that promises to revolutionize how we interact with cookies.

The Problem with document.cookie

Before diving into CookieStore, let’s recall the headaches document.cookie has caused us:

An interesting resource to have on hand when we need to document an API:

API Documentation Gallery

Where we have selected, very graphic examples of how to display the documentation of our APIs.

If you know of any interesting one, just make a pull request to:

github.com/yosriady/apidocs-gallery