Designing a Fault-Tolerant API Gateway in Go
How I designed Flux-Gateway in Go to protect downstream services from traffic spikes, slow dependencies, and cascading failures.
How I designed Flux-Gateway in Go to protect downstream services from traffic spikes, slow dependencies, and cascading failures.
How Flux-Gateway uses Redis Lua scripts to implement atomic traffic control across multiple gateway instances.
Why failing quickly can protect microservices from slow dependencies, connection timeouts, and cascading failures.
ikwukao
Backend • Distributed Systems • Platform Engineering
I design and build reliable backend systems, distributed platforms, cloud-native infrastructure, and developer tooling with Go, Python, Linux, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps practices.
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