Traffic, APIs & Security

Authentication, Authorization & Stateless Services

Security and scalability are core concerns in system design.Before building distributed or microservices-based systems, it’s important to clearly understand authentication, authorization, and stateless services—concepts that are often confused but fundamentally different. Authentication vs Authorization Authentication Authentication answers the question:“Who are you?” It verifies the identity of a user or system. Examples: Authorization Authorization answers the […]

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Traffic Management & APIs in System Design

Efficient traffic management is critical for building scalable, reliable, and secure systems.As systems grow, the number of users, requests, and services increases, making it essential to understand how traffic flows and how APIs are managed. In this blog, we’ll cover load balancers, reverse proxies, API gateways, and rate limiting with examples to make the concepts

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