Snyk·3yHow to build a secure API gateway in Node.js
API gateways can provide a clear path for your front-end applications (e.g., websites and native apps) to all of your back-end functionality. They can act as aggregators for the microservices and as middleware to handle common concerns, such as authentication and authorization. The most popular choice for Node.
ByteByteGo·3yEP 38: Where do we cache data?
This week’s system design refresher: ByteByteGo Facebook page What is OSI Model? What tech stack is commonly used for microservices? We’ve launched a Facebook page and want our content to be more accessible. The diagram illustrates where we cache data in a typical architecture.
Community Picks·3ySystem Design Basics: What is an API Gateway?
API gateway is a server that acts as a single point of entry for a set of microservices. It receives client requests, forwards them to the appropriate microservice, and then returns the server’s response to the client. This enables microservices to focus on their individual tasks and improves the overall performance of the system.
ByteByteGo·3yEP 39: Accounting 101 in Payment Systems
This week’s system design refresher: Cloud Native Accounting 101 in Payments Evolution of Uber's API Layer Short/Long Polling, SSE, Websocket 17 Equations That Changed the World. What is cloud native? Below is a diagram showing the evolution of architecture and processes since the 1980s.
gitconnected·3ySystem Design Interview Basics: Difference Between API Gateway and Load Balancer
API Gateway and Load Balancer are both types of infrastructure that can be used in a computer network to manage incoming requests. API gateway is a server that acts as a single point of entry for a set of microservices. Load balancer is a network device that distributes incoming network traffic across multiple backend servers.
Hacker Noon·3yAPI Gateway vs Backend for Frontend (BFF): Use Cases, Similarities and Divergencies
API Gateway is a server that handles many functionalities in a single place for the clients to interact. It can consolidate and aggregate the data across aggregating multiple microservices using a single endpoint for clients to communicate. The process will get cumbersome fast and it could bloat up the API Gateway service by making it a single Monolith service.
AWS Tip·3yFrom Monolith to Serverless
AWS Lambda is the core component of the serverless platform, but there are a number of other services that are part of the broader serverless toolset. The key is to leverage as many of these services as you can to take care of the core primitive application layer concerns.