May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
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11h 51m
English
Being an entry point in system performance, scalability and high availability of API Gateway is a very crucial factor. As it will handle all the requests, making it on asynchronous non-blocking I/O seems very logical which is what Node.js is. All the requests coming from our shopping cart microservices need to be authenticated, cached, monitored and constantly send out health aware checks. Consider a scenario where our products service has larg traffic. API Gateway should then automatically spawn new instances of the server and maintain addresses of the new instances. The new instances then need to constantly send health checks to gateway so it would know which instances are alive. Consider the same example ...
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