Advanced API Design for Scalable Distributed Systems

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Compares REST over HTTP for external gateways and Thrift code generation + binary RPC inside the backend, claims binary Thrift beats JSON for latency, and shows cross‑language stubs generated for Java/Python/Go. Describes asynchronous design using Kafka/rocketmq queues with a callback URL or webhook for external partners, shows retry via queue ack/nack. Implements rate limiting with an annotation example limit=5/60s and prevents double actions via an idempotency key stored in DB checked before processing.

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1. 0:00intro
2. 0:20preamble
3. 2:20rest for http and thrift for rpc
4. 15:24design asynchronous api calls with callback
5. 27:34design rate limiting your apis
6. 31:32design idempotency for apis

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