Design production API boundaries
Jump & context
Week 7: Parameter-Bound Approvals, Inter-Agent Bus, Production Containers & Inference Serving
The five hours
- 01
Concepts & system design
60 min· read · map the mechanismR01 — FastAPI production deployment & dependencies
R03 — OWASP API8: Security Misconfiguration
Read the assigned sections; map the mechanism, threat model and trade-offs.
- 02
Project implementation
120 min· build · integrate · debugDesign production API boundaries, authentication middleware, DB transaction boundaries, and connection pooling. Package the API and dependencies with Docker Compose.
Build, integrate, debug and improve the increment in the active project.
- 03
Security lab
60 min· attack your own systemEnumerate and threat-model every externally reachable port and HTTP route in the Docker Compose stack.
Test the abuse case, failure path, authorization bypass or resource limit.
- 04
Verification & evidence
30 min· test · record evidenceReproducible Docker Compose setup and endpoint exposure threat matrix.
Add or run regression tests; record the 9-point evidence record.
- 05
Deliberate practice & Socratic review
30 min· explain aloud · update gapsAnswer the 8 Socratic questions without notes: What? Why? How? What if? Why not? How can I prove it? Where can it break? What have I learned?
Re-explain the hardest concept aloud, inspect one edge case, update the gap log.
- total5 h
Read today · inside the concepts block
R01 R03FastAPI tutorial, request bodies, dependencies, async, and Pydantic model validation.
BOLA (API1), Broken Auth (API2), Unrestricted Resource Consumption (API4), SSRF (API7), Misconfiguration (API8).
Read only the named sections needed for today's task. Reading sits inside the 60-minute concepts block; it is not extra time.
Free resources for this day
5 curated- docsOWASP API Security Top 10 · ~30 min readOWASP Top 10 API Security Risks – 2023
API1 BOLA, API4 unrestricted resource consumption and API8 misconfiguration are the checks your boundary, middleware and resource limits must answer for each endpoint.
R03moved 2026-11-11 - videoBuild With LaL · ~15 minDockerize FastAPI app for Development and Production | Scalable and Hot-Reload
Builds separate dev and prod Dockerfiles plus a compose file with entrypoints, the packaging step this day ends on.
R01checked 2026-11-11 - videoCode Goat · ~30 minDocker Compose Step-by-Step: Deploy FastAPI, Postgres, Redis & Celery | #3
Wires API, database, cache and worker into one compose stack with dependency ordering, matching the multi-service boundary you are defining.
R01checked 2026-11-11 - articleHello Fahid · 7 min readDockerising a FastAPI App with Compose, Nginx & Redis
Multi-stage build, non-root `USER`, healthchecks and a private backend network — the compose topology that keeps the API and its DB pool on an internal network.
R01checked 2026-11-11 - courseDocker Docs · ~20 min hands-onContainerize a Python application
Official guided build of a FastAPI image plus compose file using a hardened base image, giving you a known-good baseline for the project's own Dockerfile.
R01moved 2026-11-11
Evidence record · 9-point standard
A lab is complete only when it produces evidence. Installing PyRIT, Garak, Presidio or TransformerLens is not completion. Saved on this device only.
Day notes
emptyThe two source formulations
verbatim · nothing summarisedProject & Stage Target
P3 & Shared Infra (C3, C8) | S0, M4
Core Implementation
Design production API boundaries, authentication middleware, DB transaction boundaries, and connection pooling. Package the API and dependencies with Docker Compose.
Security Lab
Enumerate and threat-model every externally reachable port and HTTP route in the Docker Compose stack.
Verification & Evidence
Reproducible Docker Compose setup and endpoint exposure threat matrix.
Read Today (60m Concepts Block)
R01 (FastAPI production deployment & dependencies), R03 (OWASP API8: Security Misconfiguration).
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