How APIs Use Backpressure to Prevent Overload
from The API Podcast with Fexingo: REST, GraphQL, and Modern Web APIs Hosted by Fexingo
In this episode of The API Podcast with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore backpressure — the often-overlooked mechanism that keeps APIs from being overwhelmed by their own success. Using the example of a payment gateway that handles millions of transactions per day, they explain how backpressure works, why it matters more than ever in event-driven architectures, and how it differs from rate limiting and throttling. They discuss practical strategies like message queuing, circuit breakers, and load shedding, and show how systems like Kafka and reactive streams use backpressure to stay resilient. If you've ever wondered why some APIs fail gracefully while others collapse under load, this episode gives you the mental model and vocabulary to understand it — and maybe even apply it to your own systems. #Backpressure #APIDesign #EventDrivenArchitecture #ReactiveStreams #Kafka #LoadShedding #CircuitBreaker #MessageQueue #Resilience #Technology #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #APISecurity #DistributedSystems #Scalability #Microservices #SystemDesign #TechPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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