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Load Balancers
Distributing traffic evenly across backend fleets
Learn how load balancers route incoming requests to multiple servers to prevent bottlenecks, scale capacity, and implement horizontal failover.
Cache-Aside Pattern
Accelerating data retrieval with Redis and Postgres
Understand the industry-standard cache-aside caching mechanism using a high-speed Redis cache in front of a Postgres database.
API Gateways
Centralized entry points for microservices routing
Master path-based routing, service pool mappings, and client query resolution using a centralized API Gateway node.
Valet Key Pattern
Offloading file upload bandwidth to Cloud Storage
Learn how to use pre-signed URLs to enable clients to upload large binary assets directly to object storage without choking backend servers.