Lessons from Building an API Management Platform
summary
Rebuilt a bundled Node.js monorepo gateway used by thousands of engineers into a self-serve GoLang platform that now manages 1500+ APIs and fronts ~3000 internal microservices. Implements schema enforcement, protocol conversion, rate limiting, auditing, lifecycle management and an encryption/decryption layer for PII so only gatekeeper code handles plaintext. Operational lessons: start small with a single protocol and single serialization, keep the gateway as a proxy where possible, and expect UI to add ongoing overhead. Serves on the order of a million requests in production.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction to API platform
- 10:01Choosing languages and protocols
- 13:57Handling data transformation challenges
- 19:42Final learnings and platform status
- 21:37Security and encryption mechanisms
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