Note that API design is not just URL path design. Most of the time, we need to choose the proper resource names, identifiers, and path patterns. It is equally important to design proper HTTP header fields or to design effective rate-limiting rules within the API gateway. TCP/IP encapsulatio...
Steps 9-12: The API gateway can handle errors properly, and deals with faults if the error takes a longer time to recover (circuit break). It can also leverage ELK (Elastic-Logstash-Kibana) stack for logging and monitoring. We sometimes cache data in the API gateway. How do we design ...
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When it comes to API design, REST and GraphQL each have their own strengths and weaknesses. The diagram below shows a quick comparison between REST and GraphQL. REST Uses standard HTTP methods like GET, POST, PUT, DELETE for CRUD operations. Works well when you need simple, uniform interfa...