What is rate limiting? Imagine someone making a request to an API. Now, let's say there are many requests coming in from different people or applications, and the server that handles these requests gets overwhelmed. It can't handle all the requests a...
What is Apache Kafka? Apache Kafka is an open-source event-streaming platform. What is an event? event is a course of action in your application like a user ordering a product from its cart, sending an email, etc. Kafka is an excellent way to communi...
What is load balancing? Let's imagine that we have a normal server and there are a lot of requests that overload our site. This is where load balancing comes in. Rather than managing all network traffic on a single server, this site distributes traff...
what is gRPC? To understand gRPC first we need to know what RPC is.RPC(Remote Procedure Call) is used to create Inter-Process-Communication between services where services can communicate with each other remotely. And gRPC is an open-source high-perf...
It's an architectural style of software development where software is a collection of services that are distributed, loosely coupled, and highly maintainable. To understand microservice architecture first we need to understand what monolithic archite...
For network security, reverse proxies and forward proxies are essential. A forward proxy acts as an intermediary between a client and a server. When a client requests data from the server, it forwards the request to the server. The client cannot dire...
