The future of API (Platform) architecture
summary
API Platform is a decade-old ecosystem with 8,000+ commits across 17 repos, ~9 million downloads, 600 contributors and 15 maintainers and it now pushes a concrete architecture called Edge Side APIs that prebuilds JSON responses into CDNs using SSG or ISR and regenerates on write via provider APIs (Vercel, Cloudflare Workers, Lambda@Edge or self‑hosted Caddy/Fly.io). It enforces atomic resources (no embedding), uses HTTP preload/103 and Prefer-Push to avoid N+1, and pairs cache coherence with realtime updates via Mercure and Vulcain.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction and project origin
- 5:58Current API Platform architecture
- 13:20Jamstack and frontend improvements
- 19:57Introducing Edge Side APIs
- 35:25Q&A on ESA and caching
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