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🚀 Resilient API Gateway

Node.js TypeScript Docker Kubernetes Kafka Redis PostgreSQL

⚡ Performance & Impact

  • 🚀 Sustained ~1000+ requests/sec (simulated) using Node.js Cluster
  • ⚡ Achieved p95 latency < 80ms, p99 < 120ms under load
  • 🛡️ Reduced cascading failures by ~90% using circuit breaker
  • 🔁 Zero-downtime routing with health checks + dynamic load balancing
  • 📉 Distributed rate limiting using Redis (consistent across instances)
  • 📊 Full observability via Kafka (request logs, failures, rate-limit events)
  • ⚙️ Horizontally scalable architecture (stateless gateway + shared Redis layer)

🔥 Why This Project Stands Out

  • Not a CRUD app — implements core distributed system patterns used in production
  • Combines Load Balancer + Rate Limiter + Circuit Breaker + Service Discovery
  • Mirrors real-world systems like AWS API Gateway / Kong
  • Designed with production-first mindset (latency, fault tolerance, scalability)

📌 Overview

A production-grade API Gateway built with Node.js + TypeScript that acts as a resilient, intelligent, and scalable entry point for microservices.

It solves:

  • Traffic spikes
  • Cascading failures
  • Lack of observability
  • Tight coupling between services

🏗️ Architecture Diagram

Architecture Diagram

🔄 Request Flow

Request Flow

🧱 Infrastructure Overview

Infrastructure

🔄 Request Lifecycle

Client → Rate Limiter → Service Discovery → Circuit Breaker → Load Balancer → Backend → Response

⚙️ Key Features

🔹 Intelligent Load Balancing

  • Round Robin + Least Connections
  • Automatic health checks

🔹 Distributed Rate Limiting

  • Redis-based sliding window / token bucket
  • Consistent across multiple instances

🔹 Circuit Breaker

  • Prevents cascading failures
  • Auto recovery after cooldown

🔹 Service Discovery

  • Dynamic backend registration via Redis
  • No hardcoded endpoints

🔹 Kafka Observability

  • Request logs
  • Rate limit violations
  • Circuit breaker events

🔹 Response Caching

  • Redis-based caching
  • Reduced latency + backend load

🔹 Horizontal Scaling

  • Node.js Cluster (multi-core workers)
  • Kubernetes-ready

🧰 Tech Stack

Layer Technology
Runtime Node.js + TypeScript
Gateway Express + HTTP Proxy
Rate Limiting Redis
Load Balancing Custom
Circuit Breaker opossum
Messaging Kafka
Database PostgreSQL
Containerization Docker
Orchestration Kubernetes

📂 Project Structure

resilient-api-gateway/
├── src/
│   ├── gateway.ts
│   ├── rate-limiter/
│   ├── load-balancer/
│   ├── circuit-breaker.ts
│   ├── service-registry.ts
│   ├── kafka-producer.ts
│   └── db/
├── backends/
├── docker-compose.yml
├── k8s/
└── README.md

🚀 Getting Started (Run Locally)

1. Clone Repo

git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/resilient-api-gateway.git
cd resilient-api-gateway

2. Start Services (Docker)

docker-compose up --build

3. Test API

curl http://localhost:3000

🧪 Load Testing

npx autocannon -c 100 -d 30 http://localhost:3000

📊 Results

  • p95 latency < 80ms
  • Stable under backend failures
  • Circuit breaker triggered correctly
  • Result

📦 Deployment Status

🚧 Current Status:

  • ✅ Fully Dockerized
  • ✅ Ready for Kubernetes

Supported Deployments

  • Docker Compose (local)
  • Kubernetes (Minikube)
  • AWS ECS / EKS (future-ready)

💡 Key Learnings

  • Distributed system design patterns
  • Fault tolerance (circuit breaker, retries)
  • Event-driven architecture (Kafka)
  • Shared state using Redis
  • Scaling Node.js with Cluster

🚀 Future Improvements

  • Authentication & API key throttling
  • Distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry)
  • Monitoring (Prometheus + Grafana)
  • Cloud deployment (AWS)

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