API & Microservices Design Checklist for Scalability

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✅ API & Microservices Design Checklist 1. Define Clear Service Boundaries ·        Single responsibility per service ·        Bounded contexts & domain-driven design ·        Avoid tight coupling between services 2. API Contract & Versioning ·        Use RESTful style or GraphQL depending on use case ·        Version your APIs (v1, v2…) ·        Use descriptive paths & clear resource naming ·        Use consistent response formats (JSON, error schema) 3. Authentication & Authorization ·        JWT / OAuth2 / OpenID Connect ·        Role-based access control & scopes ·        Secure endpoints and validate permissions 4. Data Design & Persistence ·        Choose databases per service: SQL, NoSQL (Mongo, Postgres, etc.) ·        Schema design, migrations & versioning ·        Handle data consistency and eventual consistency 5. Error Handling & Retries ·        Standardized error codes & messages ·        Exponential backoff, circuit breakers ·        Idempotency for safe retries 6. Observability & Monitoring ·        Logging (structured logs) ·        Metrics, traces, dashboards ·        Distributed tracing, correlation IDs 7. Scalability & Performance ·        Caching (in-memory, Redis) ·        Asynchronous processing, queues ·        Rate limiting & throttling ·        Load balancing, autoscaling 8. Deployment & DevOps ·        Containerization (Docker) ·        CI / CD pipelines ·        Blue-green / canary deployments ·        Infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation) 9. Security & Best Practices ·        Validate & sanitize inputs (avoid SQL injection, XSS) ·        Use HTTPS everywhere ·        Secret management (vaults, environment variables) ·        Regular security audits and dependency checks 10. Testing Strategy ·        Unit tests for individual components ·        Integration tests across API & DB ·        Contract tests between services ·        End-to-end tests covering workflows 11. Documentation & Contracts ·        API docs (Swagger / OpenAPI, GraphQL schema) ·        API version changelogs ·        Clear onboarding & dev guides 12. Failover & Resilience ·        Graceful degradation & fallback strategies ·        Circuit breaker, bulkheads ·        Health checks & readiness endpoints Whether you’re building a monolith or a microservices architecture, this checklist helps you catch blind spots and build systems that scale. DM me if you want to talk about system design. Happy to brainstorm best practices, trade-offs, or real-world examples! #SoftwareArchitecture #API #Microservices #SystemDesign #Scalability #CloudComputing #DevOps #BackendDeveloper #FullStackDeveloper #TechLeadership #SydneyTech #NewOpportunities

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