Communication & API Design on An observer's log

API Gateway

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🔴 P0 — appears in nearly every system design; the single entry point pattern

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🟠 P1 — solves the “one API doesn’t fit all clients” problem

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🟠 P1 — decoupling internal gRPC from external REST via a stateless proxy

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🟡 P2 — Martin Fowler’s pattern for incremental migration from monolith to microservices

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

🟠 P1 — how you evolve public APIs without breaking consumers

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

🔴 P0 — the most fundamental inter-service communication decision

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🔴 P0 — queues are the backbone of async architectures

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

🔴 P0 — staff-level framing question: how do multi-service workflows coordinate?

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

🟠 P1 — solves the dual-write problem; critical for exactly-once in event-driven systems