7 posts tagged with "serverless"

How fast can you go from an empty folder to a fully deployed full-stack app? In this post, I'll walk through a live vibe coding session where I pair-programmed with an AI agent (Claude Code) to build a todo app using React for the frontend and Codehooks.io for the backend — all deployed to the cloud in minutes.

Every prompt I typed, every decision the agent made, and every line of code it wrote is documented here. Follow along and try it yourself.

OpenClaw is everywhere right now. People are running "Jarvis" on Mac minis 24/7, automating their entire digital lives.

But here's the thing: OpenClaw runs locally. That's great for privacy and control. It's less great when you need:

• REST APIs and webhooks that stay up even when your computer sleeps
• Persistent storage beyond local files
• Background jobs that run on a schedule
• CRUD endpoints your other apps can talk to

You could give your agent access to AWS. Let it wire up Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and SQS. Watch it burn through your free tier and leak credentials.

Or you could give it a backend designed for agents.

Your API is only as useful as its documentation. Without clear docs, developers waste hours reverse-engineering endpoints, partners struggle to integrate, and AI agents can't understand your API at all.

But writing OpenAPI specs by hand? That's tedious, error-prone, and constantly out of sync with your actual code.

What if your documentation wrote itself?

With the latest codehooks-js update, it does. Define your schemas once, and Codehooks generates complete OpenAPI 3.0 documentation—served as an interactive Swagger UI at /docs.

Every modern SaaS needs to react to events: a user signs up, a payment succeeds, a trial expires. Webhooks are the glue that connects these events to your business logic—but building reliable webhook infrastructure means managing servers, queues, retries, and databases.

Email automation platforms promise to handle this, but they come with baggage: vendor lock-in, limited webhook integrations, and opaque pricing that scales against you.

What if your webhook endpoints could directly power your email automation?

Most AI projects don't need a fleet of orchestration tools to run a few prompt chains. The real work is state management, retries, scheduling, and simple persistence—the operational glue between LLM API calls.

This post shows you how to build a production-ready text summarization workflow using Codehooks.io, the Workflow API, and OpenAI. You'll learn:

• OpenAI API integration patterns: Error handling, retries, rate limiting, and cost optimization
• Workflow state management: Building reliable multi-step processes with caching and persistence
• Webhook triggers: Event-driven workflows that respond to GitHub issues (and other external services)
• Programmatic access: How to trigger and manage workflows via REST API, CLI, and webhooks

By the end, you'll have a working summarizer that caches results, stores them in a NoSQL database, and can be triggered via REST API or GitHub webhooks—all deployed with a single command.

Here's the workflow we'll build:

An API is an interface that lets software communicate by defining how to make requests and receive responses. A REST API is a specific kind of API that follows REST principles over HTTP—using methods like GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE to work with resources. All REST APIs are APIs, but not all APIs are REST.

Confused? Don't worry. In this post, you'll learn everything about the API and REST API domain—from core concepts and key differences to how REST+JSON became the web's standard. We'll explore why REST APIs dominate today's development landscape, compare different backend service models, and finally show you how to build your own APIs in practice using Codehooks.io.

Updated February 2026 with new tools (Windsurf, OpenAI Codex CLI, Gemini CLI) and refreshed pricing, stats, and feature descriptions across all entries.

Ever notice how some days you're a caffeinated code ninja ready to refactor an entire codebase, while other days you can barely muster the energy to fix a typo? Welcome to the wonderfully human world of vibe coding – and the tools that get it.