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Real-Time API Gateway

High-concurrency API gateway optimized for low-latency real-time data delivery.

Role: Backend Engineer
Duration: 2 Months
Team: 2
Source Code
Published
Feb 2025
Primary category
api

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Overview

Gateway optimized for high-throughput, low-latency API requests with real-time features

Core Capabilities

  • API request multiplexing
  • Connection pooling and load balancing
  • WebSocket-based event streaming

The Challenge

Traditional APIs fail under high-load real-time scenarios.

The Solution

  • 1Load balancing
  • 2WebSocket multiplexing

Key Features

API routing
Real-time streaming
Low-latency response
Scalability metrics

System Architecture

Non-blocking I/O, Event loop architecture, Load balancers

Key Learnings

  • Optimized backend for high concurrency

If I rebuilt this today

Future improvements: support for gRPC, extended protocol support

Challenges Overcome

  • Connection scaling
  • Latency reduction

Links

Source, demo, and reference links.

Source Code

Technologies

Node.js
WebSockets

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