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1. Filip Stanev

   · Working at Saga.so · over 3 years ago
   Best cloud solution out there

   We moved our services to Render and can't be happier!

httpbin(1) mentions (65)

• API Testing in Practice: Automating Postman Collections with Newman

  # .github/workflows/api-tests.yml Name: API Tests On: push: branches: [main] pull_request: branches: [main] Jobs: newman: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - name: Checkout repository uses: actions/checkout@v4 - name: Set up Node.js uses: actions/setup-node@v4 with: node-version: '20' - name: Install Newman run: npm install -g newman... - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• Hurl vs Postman: Git-Friendly API Testing With Proxy-Aware Egress (2026)

  💡 httpbin.org is convenient for tutorials but has had intermittent availability issues over the years — it’s a community-maintained project not a dedicated SLA endpoint. If you see unexpected failures on the smoke check, httpstat.us/200 works as a URL swap — but update the_ Content-Type: line to match whatever that endpoint actually returns. For your own projects, point this at a /health or /status on your actual... - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Spoofing Your Scraper's Fingerprint Is a Losing Arcade

  Probing: https://httpbin.org Behavior scorecard (4/4 good-citizen checks) ------------------------------------------------------------ [PASS] backs off on 429 429 carried no Retry-After; applied exponential backoff [PASS] spaces out retries gaps [2.58, 3.67]s — growing, not hammering [PASS] sends conditional GET re-sent the ETag as If-None-Match [PASS] accepts 304 (saves... - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Async Web Scraping in Python: asyncio + aiohttp + httpx (Complete 2026 Guide)

  Import asyncio Import aiohttp From typing import Optional Async def fetch_url( session: aiohttp.ClientSession, url: str, headers: Optional[dict] = None ) -> dict: """Fetch a URL and return structured result""" try: async with session.get(url, headers=headers, timeout=aiohttp.ClientTimeout(total=15)) as resp: return { "url": url, "status":... - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• A Practical Guide to Building MCP Apps

  Async function runDirectFetch() { const el = document.getElementById('result'); el.textContent = 'Testing direct fetch from browser…'; try { const res = await fetch('https://httpbin.org/get'); const json = await res.json(); el.textContent = '✅ Direct fetch succeeded! (CSP allows this)\\n\\n' + JSON.stringify(json, null, 2).substring(0, 800); } catch (err) { ... - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

Render mentions (506)

• I generated 207 MCP tools from an OpenAPI spec. Generating them was the easy part.

  I wanted neither, so I built render-useful-mcp: an MCP server for Render where every API tool is generated from Render's own OpenAPI document. All 207 endpoints, no curation. - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago

• Seven Free Node.js Hosting Platforms Worth Trying in 2026

  Render offers a free web service tier for Node applications, with 512 MB of memory and 0.1 CPU, that spins down after 15 minutes of inactivity and cold-starts on the next request. Deploys are Git-driven, native runtimes handle most Node versions without a Dockerfile, one-click rollback works on all tiers, and preview environments are available with their own resource billing. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• Best alternatives to Heroku in 2026

  Render is the closest structural match to Heroku on this list. It's built around web services, background workers, static sites, cron jobs, and managed Postgres and Redis, which maps almost one-to-one onto a Procfile plus Heroku add-ons. Buildpack-style auto-detection handles most language runtimes without a Dockerfile, and preview environments and one-click rollback exist out of the box. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• Why Vercel is still my default for shipping frontend projects

  The other limitation is compute. Vercel Functions can handle APIs, server-rendered routes, streaming, and other request-driven tasks, and the current function limits are far more generous. But if your application requires a continuously running background process or custom Docker containers, Vercel isn't the right fit. There are platforms like Render or Northflank that are built for that kind of workload. Vercel... - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• How to Get Your First Tool Online

  A host: A host is really just a computer that stays powered on and connected to the internet with a public address of its own. When a visitor types in the app's address, their browser sends a request across the internet to that machine, the machine runs the code, and it sends the finished page back. A laptop was quietly doing both jobs during the build, the server and the only visitor allowed in; a host is that... - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago