API Microservices Communication Patterns: A Practical Guide for Scale and Resilience
A practical guide to synchronous and asynchronous microservice communication patterns, trade-offs, and implementation tips for resilient APIs.
A practical guide to synchronous and asynchronous microservice communication patterns, trade-offs, and implementation tips for resilient APIs.
Design robust REST API health check endpoints: liveness vs readiness, payload schema, dependencies, security, caching, and production-ready examples.
Clear rules for naming API resources, fields, and events across REST, GraphQL, and gRPC—with examples, pitfalls, and a practical checklist.
Practical best practices for GraphQL schema design: naming, types, pagination, nullability, errors, auth, evolution, and performance.
Design and implement a reliable AI content moderation API: taxonomy, architecture, code, policy config, thresholds, privacy, and evaluation best practices.
Practical strategies to keep APIs backward compatible—versioning, additive changes, deprecation, rollout, and testing for REST, GraphQL, and gRPC.