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API Rate Limiting at Scale: Redis-Based Strategies

API Rate Limiting at Scale with Redis Rate limiting is essential for protecting your APIs from abuse, ensuring fair usage, and preventing cascading failures. Redis is the ideal store for rate limiting because of its spee…

Apr 20, 20262 min read

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System Design: Designing a Scalable GraphQL API Gateway

Designing a Scalable GraphQL API Gateway GraphQL is popular because it allows clients to request exactly what they need. But when you have 50+ microservices, you cannot have 50 different GraphQL endpoints. You need a Gra…

Apr 20, 20262 min read

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System Design: Building an API Gateway Platform

An API gateway is the front door to your backend. It receives traffic before your services do, which makes it powerful and dangerous. A good gateway centralizes routing, authentication, rate limiting, request shaping, ob…

Apr 8, 20268 min read

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