https://apicoding.com/tags/technical-debt/ Recent content in Technical Debt on API Coding Hugo en-us Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://apicoding.com/finding-api-endpoints-tables-and-flags-nobody-uses-takes-code-and-traffic-together/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://apicoding.com/finding-api-endpoints-tables-and-flags-nobody-uses-takes-code-and-traffic-together/ <p>A team wants to delete <code>GET /v1/invoices/{id}/legacy-pdf</code>. A search across the main repo finds no caller, and the gateway logs show zero hits in the last 30 days. The route goes out in a cleanup PR. On the first business day of the next quarter, a partner&rsquo;s reconciliation job starts failing: it calls that endpoint four times a year, and nobody on the team knew the partner was still there.</p>