Designing Load Shedding and Backpressure for APIs
Learn how to protect APIs during overload with admission control, bounded queues, backpressure signals, and clear degradation rules.
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api design
7 Devspedia articles tagged with api design.
Designing Retry Strategies with Backoff and Jitter
Learn how to retry transient failures without amplifying outages by combining timeouts, backoff, jitter, budgets, and observability.
Optimistic Concurrency Control for APIs and Databases
Learn how to prevent lost updates with version columns, ETags, compare-and-swap writes, and useful conflict responses.
Practical API Rate Limiting with Token Buckets
Learn how to design token-bucket API rate limits that protect services without punishing normal users.
Designing Cursor Pagination APIs That Stay Correct Under Load
Learn how to design cursor pagination APIs that remain stable when records are inserted, deleted, or queried at scale.
Implementing Idempotency Keys in APIs to Prevent Duplicate Actions
Learn how idempotency keys prevent duplicate side effects in retry-heavy clients by combining request fingerprinting, state tracking, and careful concurrency handling.
Backend For Frontend (BFF) Pattern: Crafting Custom APIs for Modern Web Applications
Explore the innovative Backend For Frontend (BFF) pattern that customizes API layers for distinct frontends, enhancing performance and maintainability in modern web architectures.