Designing High-Throughput APIs Without Overengineering

How to tell the difference between scaling work that's actually needed and scaling work that's premature.

Draft — full write-up coming soon.

This piece will look at the order in which API scalability work actually pays off — rate limiting and pagination before caching, caching before horizontal scaling, horizontal scaling before a rewrite — and how to avoid solving throughput problems you don't have yet. Related: Building High-Throughput REST APIs.