As an engineering leader, my contributions encompasses more towards providing technical leadership within the product engineering department.
Highly Available and Fail-Safe API Architecture ensures continuous service up-time and reliable performance, even in the event of failures. Key elements include:
Load Balancing: Distributes API traffic across multiple servers to prevent overloading and ensure seamless failover if one server fails.
Redundancy: Critical components (servers, databases, etc.) are duplicated across different regions or availability zones to prevent single points of failure.
Health Checks: Continuous monitoring of API services to detect and resolve issues proactively.
Auto-scaling: Dynamically adjusts resources based on traffic demand to maintain performance during traffic spikes.
Graceful Degradation: Ensures partial functionality is maintained during failures, rather than complete downtime.