SCALABILITY
How to Scale a Node.js API from 100 to 1M Requests
Each scaling tier exists to remove one specific bottleneck. Here is which bottleneck, in what order, and what each fix costs you.
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BACKEND
Redis Queues vs Direct API Processing
When to do the work inside the request, when to queue it, and the four things that make a queue safe to retry.
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ENGINEERING
How to Handle Third-Party API Failures
Every external dependency will fail. Timeouts, breakers, backoff and a defined degraded state are the four things that decide whether that becomes your outage.
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