# Scalable Systems

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/scalable-systems/  
**APIs profiled:** 7

A topic collection focused on APIs, tools, and platforms for designing and operating scalable distributed systems. Covers load balancing, auto-scaling, service discovery, distributed caching, message queues, and the cloud infrastructure APIs that enable systems to handle growth in data, traffic, and complexity. Relevant to site reliability engineers, infrastructure architects, and platform engineers responsible for operating high-scale production environments.

## Kin Score — 32.3 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 32.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 65.0 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 30.6 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | documented |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (7)

- **AWS Auto Scaling API** — AWS Auto Scaling monitors applications and automatically adjusts capacity across multiple AWS resources including EC2, ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, and Aurora. The API enables definin...
- **Redis REST API (Upstash)** — Redis is the dominant distributed in-memory cache and data structure store used to reduce latency and database load in scalable systems. Upstash provides a serverless Redis-comp...
- **Consul API** — HashiCorp Consul provides service discovery, health checking, key-value storage, and service mesh capabilities via a comprehensive REST API. Core component for service registry ...
- **etcd API** — etcd is a strongly consistent, distributed key-value store used as the backing store for Kubernetes and many distributed systems. Its gRPC API provides atomic operations, watche...
- **Celery Flower API** — Celery is a distributed task queue for Python applications. Flower is Celery's real-time monitoring tool that exposes an HTTP API for inspecting workers, tasks, queues, and sche...
- **NGINX Plus API** — NGINX Plus provides an advanced REST API for runtime configuration and statistics of upstream server groups, virtual servers, and cache zones. Enables dynamic load balancer reco...
- **Scalable Systems ApplicationAutoScaling API** — The ApplicationAutoScaling API from Scalable Systems — 1 operation(s) for applicationautoscaling.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Scalable Systems Agentic Access** — 1 operation · 1 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (3)

- **Scalable Systems Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Scalable Systems Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Scalable Systems Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Scalable Systems Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Auto-Scaling, Caching, Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, High Availability, Infrastructure, Load Balancing, Message Queues, Platform Engineering, Scalable Architecture, Service Discovery

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/scalable-systems/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.