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Scalable Services
A curated topic collection covering APIs, patterns, tools, and best practices for designing and operating scalable services. This includes cloud-native microservices, API gateways, load balancers, container orchestration, serverless platforms, service meshes, and the architectural patterns that enable services to scale horizontally and vertically. Relevant to platform engineers, cloud architects, and backend developers building high-traffic, distributed systems.
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Envoy Admin API
Envoy Proxy's administration API for inspecting and modifying Envoy runtime configuration, stats, clusters, and listeners. Envoy is the foundational data plane for many service mesh and API gateway deployments.
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Istio API
Istio's configuration APIs define traffic management, security policy, and observability for microservice meshes. Expressed as Kubernetes CRDs (VirtualService, DestinationRule, Gateway, etc.).
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AWS Lambda API
Amazon Web Services Lambda API for creating, managing, invoking, and monitoring serverless functions. Core to event-driven, auto-scaling architectures.
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Kong Admin API
Kong Gateway's RESTful Admin API for managing services, routes, plugins, consumers, upstreams, and certificates. Kong is a widely deployed open-source API gateway for scalable API management.
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Prometheus HTTP API
Prometheus exposes an HTTP API for querying metrics, metadata, and alerting rules. Essential for observability and autoscaling decisions in scalable service architectures.
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Knative API
Knative provides Kubernetes-based platform APIs for deploying and scaling event-driven serverless workloads. Includes Knative Serving (scale-to-zero) and Knative Eventing (event sourcing and routing).
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gRPC Reflection API
gRPC server reflection provides information about publicly-accessible gRPC services on a server, enabling discovery and dynamic invocation. gRPC is widely used for high-performance inter-service communication in scalable microservice archi…
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Scalable Services ConfigMaps API
The ConfigMaps API from Scalable Services — 1 operation(s) for configmaps.
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Scalable Services Namespaces API
The Namespaces API from Scalable Services — 2 operation(s) for namespaces.
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Scalable Services Nodes API
The Nodes API from Scalable Services — 2 operation(s) for nodes.
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Scalable Services PersistentVolumes API
The PersistentVolumes API from Scalable Services — 1 operation(s) for persistentvolumes.
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Scalable Services Pods API
The Pods API from Scalable Services — 3 operation(s) for pods.
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Scalable Services Secrets API
The Secrets API from Scalable Services — 1 operation(s) for secrets.
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Scalable Services API
The Services API from Scalable Services — 2 operation(s) for services.
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Providers working in Scalable Services
Providers whose own tags share at least two of this topic's tags, most shared first — the top 30 of 214.
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| Service Fabric | Azure Service Fabric is an open-source distributed systems platform for packaging, deploying, and managing scalable and reliable microservices and containers. Service Fabric powers many Microsoft Azure core services, and thousands of servi… | thin | 1 |
| RESTful Microservices | An architectural style that structures an application as a collection of loosely coupled, independently deployable services that communicate via REST APIs using HTTP methods and standard web protocols. This collection covers RESTful micros… | minimal | 0 |
| Solo.io | Solo.io is a cloud-native application-networking company founded in 2017 that builds enterprise and open-source API gateways, service mesh, and agentic-AI infrastructure. Its products include Kgateway Enterprise (formerly Gloo Gateway), an… | strong | 5 |
| Azure Container Apps | Azure Container Apps is a serverless container service for running microservices and containerized applications with built-in autoscaling, traffic splitting, and Dapr integration. It enables developers to deploy containers without managing… | strong | 1 |
| Gloo | Gloo is Solo.io's family of open-source and enterprise API gateway, service mesh and developer portal products, built on Envoy Proxy and Istio and delivered as software the customer runs in their own Kubernetes clusters rather than as a ho… | strong | 8 |
| Envoy Gateway | Envoy Gateway is a CNCF project that manages Envoy Proxy as a standalone or Kubernetes-based application gateway. It implements the Kubernetes Gateway API and extends it with its own API group, gateway.envoyproxy.io, whose eight Custom Res… | developing | 3 |
| VMware Tanzu | VMware Tanzu (now part of Broadcom) is a portfolio of products for modernizing applications and infrastructure with a common approach to building, running, and managing Kubernetes across multi-cloud environments. Key APIs include the Tanzu… | thin | 2 |
| Quarkus | Quarkus is a Kubernetes-native Java framework tailored for GraalVM and OpenJDK HotSpot, designed to build cloud-native microservices and serverless applications with fast startup times and low memory footprint. | thin | 1 |
| Open Service Mesh | Open Service Mesh (OSM) is a lightweight, extensible, cloud native service mesh built on Envoy and the Service Mesh Interface (SMI) specification. OSM provides traffic shifting, mutual TLS, access control, observability, and automatic side… | emerging | 1 |
| Cloudflare | Cloudflare is a global network designed to make everything you connect to the Internet secure, private, fast, and reliable. | exemplar | 24 |
| Calico | Calico is an open source networking and network security solution for containers, virtual machines, and native host-based workloads. Created and maintained by Tigera, it is the most widely adopted solution for container networking and secu… | exemplar | 1 |
| Scaleway | Scaleway is a European cloud provider offering a full suite of compute, storage, networking, AI, and serverless infrastructure services. Scaleway provides a comprehensive REST API for programmatic management of all cloud resources includin… | developing | 10 |
| AWS App Runner | AWS App Runner is a fully managed service that makes it easy to build, deploy, and run containerized web applications and APIs at scale. It automatically builds and deploys applications from container images or source code, load balances t… | developing | 1 |
| Etcd | etcd is a CNCF graduated distributed, reliable key-value store used as the backing store for all Kubernetes cluster data. It provides strong consistency guarantees using the Raft consensus algorithm, supporting watch operations, lease-base… | developing | 1 |
| Knative | Knative is a CNCF graduated platform that extends Kubernetes to provide serverless capabilities. It consists of Serving for deploying and scaling serverless workloads with automatic scale-to-zero, and Eventing for building event-driven arc… | developing | 2 |
| Apache APISIX | Apache APISIX is a dynamic, real-time, high-performance cloud-native API gateway built on NGINX and etcd, developed by the Apache Software Foundation. It supports Lua and multi-language plugins for traffic management, authentication, obser… | developing | 2 |
| Zeebe | Zeebe is the cloud-native workflow engine that powers Camunda 8, providing scalable, resilient workflow automation and microservices orchestration without relying on a central database, enabling high throughput with horizontal scaling. It… | developing | 1 |
| Amazon Fargate | Amazon Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers that works with both Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS. Fargate removes the need to provision and manage servers, letting you specify and pay for resources per application, and improves… | developing | 6 |
| Envoy | Envoy is a high-performance, open-source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications and microservice architectures. It provides advanced load balancing, observability, and traffic management features, and serves as the d… | developing | 3 |
| Azure Service Fabric | Azure Service Fabric REST API provides management of microservices clusters, applications, and services. It supports creating and scaling clusters, deploying applications, managing partitions and replicas, and monitoring cluster health for… | developing | 2 |
| HAProxy | HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. It exposes a Data Plane API for dynamic configuration management and a stats socket for r… | developing | 1 |
| Kuma | Kuma is a platform-agnostic open-source service mesh built on top of Envoy proxy. It provides universal connectivity, security, and observability for services and microservices running on any infrastructure including Kubernetes and VMs. | developing | 1 |
| Aqua Security | Aqua Security provides cloud-native security for the full application lifecycle, protecting containers, serverless functions, and cloud workloads with vulnerability scanning, runtime protection, and compliance enforcement. | developing | 8 |
| Isovalent | Isovalent is the company founded in 2017 by the creators of Cilium, the eBPF-based networking, security, and observability platform for Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure. Isovalent builds and maintains the open source Cilium proje… | developing | 2 |
| Google Cloud Service Mesh | Google Cloud Service Mesh is Google's managed service mesh solution for GKE and supported GKE Enterprise environments, enabling secure, observable, and reliable communication between microservices. It provides a managed Istio control plane… | thin | 13 |
| Veritas Cluster Server | APIs for managing and monitoring Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) and InfoScale infrastructure, providing high availability, disaster recovery, and storage management capabilities across on-premises and containerized environments. | thin | 8 |
| Youki | youki is an open source container runtime written in Rust that implements the OCI runtime specification as a memory-safe alternative to runc, with rootless container support, cgroups v1 and v2, seccomp filtering, and systemd integration. M… | thin | 2 |
| Istio | Istio is an open-source service mesh platform that provides a comprehensive solution for managing, securing, and monitoring microservices in a distributed system. It acts as a middle layer between services, handling communication, routing,… | thin | 3 |
| Google Kubernetes Engine | Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is a managed Kubernetes service on Google Cloud that provides a production-ready environment for deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications. It offers autopilot and standard modes, built-in s… | thin | 5 |
| Spring Cloud Gateway | Spring Cloud Gateway provides an intelligent, programmable router built on Spring WebFlux that serves as the entry point to microservice architectures. It offers routing, predicate evaluation, filter chaining, load balancing, circuit break… | thin | 1 |
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API GatewayCloud-NativeContainersDistributed SystemsHigh AvailabilityKubernetesLoad BalancingMicroservicesScalable ArchitectureServerlessService Mesh