How to Build a Production-Ready Secure Python API (JWT, Rate Limiting, and Cachi

<p>Two months ago I shipped UNPWNED, a passive web security scanner aimed at indie hackers and developers shipping AI-generated code (Cursor, Lovable, Bolt, Replit, v0).</p> <p>I

<p>Authentication is often presented as a short sequence:</p> <ol> <li>Accept a username and password.</li> <li>Return a JWT.</li> <li>Protect a few endpoints.</li> </ol> <p>That

<p>🚀 After building backend projects repeatedly, I realized I was solving the same infrastructure problems every time.</p> <p>Before writing a single business feature, I had to