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.
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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