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Scalable Infrastructure - Build APIs on a Solid Foundation

Ensure your API infrastructure can scale to meet growing demand and support high availability.

APIs must be built on a robust infrastructure that can handle increasing traffic and ensure high availability. This station provides guidelines for designing and implementing scalable infrastructure that supports API growth and performance.

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  • Scalable and resilient API infrastructure
  • High availability and performance under load
  • Infrastructure designed for future growth
  • Reduced downtime and improved user experience

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Provide infrastructure design guidelines, cloud-native patterns, and monitoring tools. Ensure teams implement scalable infrastructure that can adapt to changing demands and support API performance.

  1. Design API infrastructure to be scalable and resilient, using cloud-native patterns and technologies.
  2. Implement load balancing, caching, and other techniques to ensure high availability and performance. Collect infrastructure requirements from API teams using Capacity Canvas — Capacity Canvas
  3. Monitor infrastructure performance and capacity to ensure it can handle growing demand.

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Capacity Canvas

Plan capacity for current and future demand, including volumes, peaks, latency, availability, scaling, caching, and rate limits for the selected capability and implementation style.

Outcomes

  • Capacity requirements aligned with expected business demand
  • Peak-load, availability, and growth assumptions documented
  • Scaling, caching, and rate-limiting decisions defined

How it works

  1. Document current business volumes
  2. Forecast future consumption trends
  3. Plan for peak load and availability requirements
  4. Define caching and rate-limiting strategies
  5. Propose scaling strategies

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