Building APIs that scale: design, security and governance
Building APIs that scale: design, security and governance APIs that scale should stay fast, secure, and easy to evolve. The best results come from clear contracts, thoughtful limits, and predictable behavior. Start with stateless endpoints, strong versioning, and a plan for failures. Build in retries, timeouts, and meaningful error messages so client apps can react gracefully. Design for scale Stateless services and horizontal scaling Clear versioning and backward compatibility Consistent pagination, filtering, and sorting Security matters at every layer ...