How Do I Securely Manage My Application Programming Interface Key? or What’s the Best Way to Protect

Lol @ "pls don’t roast me"—we’ve all been there.

For small projects, .env + gitignore is fine. But if you’re serious, look into Kubernetes secrets or Docker secrets.

And always, ALWAYS set rate limits on your application programming interface key. If it leaks, at least you won’t get bankrupt by abuse.

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