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Best Practices for Designing Resilient APIs for Scalability and Reliability

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Over the last 15+ years, Ive worked on designing APIs that are not only functional but also resilient able to adapt to unexpected failures and maintain performance under pressure. In this article, Ill share practical strategies for designing APIs that scale, handle errors effectively, and remain secure over time.

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Designing and Maintaining Event-Driven Architectures

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This approach makes systems reactive, scalable, and resilient to failures. Designing and maintaining, like any other large-scale framework, requires deep thinking and constant monitoring. This design keeps the components independent of each other, making the system easier to scale and maintain.

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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

Design a photo-sharing platform similar to Instagram where users can upload their photos and share it with their followers. High Level Design. Component Design. API Design. We have provided the API design of posting an image on Instagram below. API Design. Problem Statement. Architecture. Data Models.

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Designing a Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Messaging System for Distributed Applications

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However, maintaining scalability and fault tolerance in this system is a difficult but necessary task. The cornerstone is a well-designed and painstakingly built messaging system, which allows for smooth communication and data exchange across diverse components.

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Spring Boot WebClient: Performance Optimization and Resilience

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Spring WebClient is a reactive, non-blocking HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) client designed for making requests to external services. It belongs to the Spring WebFlux framework and provides advanced, scalable handling of HTTP requests more efficiently than the RestTemplate.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Write a System Design Document

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Have you ever wondered how large-scale systems handle millions of requests seamlessly while ensuring speed, reliability, and scalability? Behind every high-performing application whether its a search engine, an e-commerce platform, or a real-time messaging service lies a well-thought-out system design.

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Designing WhatsApp

High Scalability

Design an instant messenger platform such as WhatsApp or Signal which users can utilize tosend messages to each other. Currently, he is in the Alexa Shopping organization where he is developing machine-learning-based solutions to send personalized reorder hints to customers for improving their experience. Problem Statement.

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