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Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781805124993

Length 384 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Application Development

Authors (2):

Dhirendra Sinha

Tejas Chopra

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Foundations of System Design

2. Chapter 1: Basics of System Design FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Distributed System Attributes

4. Chapter 3: Distributed Systems Theorems and Data Structures

5. Part 2: Core Components of Distributed Systems

6. Chapter 4: Distributed Systems Building Blocks: DNS, Load Balancers, and Application Gateways

7. Chapter 5: Design and Implementation of System Components –Databases and Storage

8. Chapter 6: Distributed Cache

9. Chapter 7: Pub/Sub and Distributed Queues

10. Part 3: System Design in Practice

11. Chapter 8: Design and Implementation of System Components: API, Security, and Metrics

12. Chapter 9: System Design – URL Shortener

13. Chapter 10: System Design – Proximity Service

14. Chapter 11: Designing a Service Like Twitter

15. Chapter 12: Designing a Service Like Instagram

16. Chapter 13: Designing a Service Like Google Docs

17. Chapter 14: Designing a Service Like Netflix

18. Chapter 15: Tips for Interviewees

19. Chapter 16: System Design Cheat Sheet

20. Index

On-premises options

Application gateways or API gateways are not only present in cloud environments. For many enterprises, especially in the financial domain, a lot of services and applications are hosted in their own data centers. These enterprises prefer leveraging open-source software that can be seamlessly deployed in on-premise environments. Some popular application gateway platforms for on-premises environments are outlined in the following list:

Kong: Kong Gateway and Kong Mesh offer API gateway and service mesh capabilities using lightweight proxy servers. Plugins support authentication, security, analytics, and more.
Tyk: Tyk API Gateway provides an open-source gateway with robust access control, developer portal capabilities, and REST API-driven configuration.
NGINX: NGINX can be configured as an API gateway and load balancer, with rate limiting, access control, and service discovery integrations.
HAProxy: HAProxy is a fast, lightweight load balancer and...

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