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• Put your API on a JSON diet

  Last week I discussed design considerations for APIs, given that APIs aren't applications and shouldn't be treated as such. At small scales, APIs that come along for the ride with bulky Web frameworks might be fine, but beyond that you're asking for trouble. If you're building an API that will serve a large number of clients, your API code should be thin and tight, as well as make liberal use of caching. Otherwise, the future headaches will be crippling.

• HTTP/2: The future of the Web demystified

  Out with the old, in with the new, as the saying goes -- but when it comes to an overhaul of one of the Internet's most fundamental protocols, what exactly is coming in with the new?

• Room to grow: Tips for data center capacity planning

  Capacity planning needs to provide answers to two questions: What are you going to need to buy in the coming year? And when are you going to need to buy it?

• 10 biggest home networking mistakes (and how to fix them)

  The chances are pretty good that you have a wireless home network, or you've been asked by friends, family or co-workers to help install one in their home.