The request
“Create a post-creation API flowchart: parse and validate a JSON request, authenticate and rate-limit it, sanitize the content, create the post in the database, notify followers through a queue, and return the post ID or an error.”
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What is in this drawing
Read the decisions behind it.
01
Validate input and return 422 on invalid payload
02
Check authentication and return 401 if missing or invalid
03
Enforce rate limiting and return 429 when exceeded
04
Commit post to database and return 201 with ID or 500 on failure
Reuse when designing or documenting REST API endpoints that create user-generated content and require validation, rate limiting, and persistence error handling.
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