Reverse engineering a private API with Joyce Lin
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Reverse Engineering and Hyram's Law
The web apis or something that for example the tiktok engineers are using and yes They know that you can access it, but they're not expecting you to use their web apis Not in that way. And so anything that is potentially Offerable and available will become dependent on. So that's hyram's law. It's a google engineer called hyram right that said this and said apis at scale when you're at scale. Any functionality that is available will be cut be relied on by somebody Even if you didn't intend them to rely on it that way it will be relied on. Yeah, and that's super useful again from like the development perspective to be able
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