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One day my friend randomly said: “Bro… I think I have commitment issues. I need better excuses.” 💀 That one sentence somehow turned into a full AI project called Excuses Generator. Now it generates believable excuses for: - meetings - family events - dates - group trips - startup chaos and basically every “I can’t make it” situation 😭 Built using: ⚛️ React 🟢 Node.js + Express 🤖 Groq AI API Still improving it with features like: - believability score - risk level - copy-to-clipboard - smarter AI prompting Fun project, but honestly one of the best ways I’ve been learning fullstack + AI engineering recently. Turns out “commitment issues” can be great startup ideas sometimes 😂 Live Demo: https://lnkd.in/gygMz_V3 Github Link: https://lnkd.in/gk7ak9nh

Day 5 and I just learned about The API Gateway. Before this, I was thinking if I have 10 microservices, does the frontend just… call all 10 directly? That sounded messy. Turns out, yes, it would be. And the API Gateway is the fix. Think of it as the single front door to your entire system. → Client makes one request. Gateway figures out where it needs to go. → Instead of the frontend knowing about 10 services, it knows about 1. → Auth, rate limiting, logging handled once at the gate, not repeated in every service. Without it, every service is exposed. Every service has to handle its own auth. Every client has to know your entire internal structure. Change one service's location? Update every client. Nightmare. With it, your internals are your business. The outside world sees a clean, single entry point. What surprised me most is how much responsibility quietly lives here routing, security, load balancing, sometimes even response aggregation. It's doing a lot of invisible work. The analogy that clicked for me: it's like a hotel reception desk. Guests don't wander into the kitchen or the laundry room. They talk to reception, and reception handles the rest. 🏨 Starting to see how all these pieces actually fit together now. The picture is slowly getting clearer. What's something about API Gateways that took you a while to fully appreciate? #Learning #Microservices #SoftwareEngineering #BuildingInPublic

Still on my microservices journey and today two terms keep coming up everywhere: Single Responsibility and Loose Coupling. They sound simple. They are not. 😅 Here's what I'm starting to understand → Single responsibility isn't just "do one thing." It's "have one reason to change." Your user service shouldn't care about billing. Your order service shouldn't care about notifications. Each service owns its lane — fully. → Loose coupling means services should be able to do their job without needing to know too much about each other. If Service A breaks, Service B should still function. If you have to update both every time one changes… they're too tangled. What's wild is these aren't microservices-only ideas. They come from basic software design principles. Microservices just make the cost of ignoring them way more obvious. Break single responsibility? Your service becomes a monolith in disguise. Tight coupling? You've just built a distributed monolith. Worst of both worlds. Still early days but I feel like these two principles are kind of the whole game. Get the boundaries right, and everything else gets easier. Get them wrong, and no amount of tooling saves you. What's your mental model for drawing service boundaries? Genuinely curious how people figure this out in practice. #Learning #Microservices #SoftwareEngineering #BuildingInPublic

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴—𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗵𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗮𝗯𝗮𝗱. 🚀 Spent my Saturday (April 11th) deep-diving into the Claude Edition of AI Unplugged at House of Starts. If you’re not looking at how Anthropic’s models are changing the dev game, you’re already behind. Key takeaway: AI isn't just a "chatbot" anymore; it's becoming a collaborative partner in our IDEs. Great to see the Ahmedabad tech ecosystem buzzing with so much talent and innovation! Big thanks to the organizers and partners for a high-octane session. ⚡ House of Starts eChai Ventures Workplate Visity UCS EightQor Capital #AIUnplugged #ClaudeAI #Anthropic #AhmedabadTech #Innovation #FutureOfWork #GenerativeAI #HouseOfStarts