From the course: Building Scalable Microservices with TypeScript and Node.js
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Advanced API design and protocol selection
From the course: Building Scalable Microservices with TypeScript and Node.js
Advanced API design and protocol selection
- [Instructor] Let's chat about different API designs and communication protocols for microservice architecture. Choosing the right API design and communication protocol is crucial for building robust, scalable, and maintainable systems. There are three main contenders when it comes to API design, REST, GraphQL and gRPC. Let's look deeper into when you want to consider each. REST is the most popular choice because of its simplicity and widespread adoption. It's ideal for public APIs where simplicity and universal client support are a high priority, CRUD operations with clear and straightforward resource relations, and systems where caching is important. GraphQL is particularly useful in scenarios where you have complex data requirements with multiple related resources from mobile applications, where bandwidth efficiency is important, and rapid front-end development environments where the data requirements are constantly changing. GRPC API design is best for internal microservice…
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