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Scalable Systems
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.
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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 defining scaling policies, target tracking, and scheduled scaling for…
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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-compatible REST API for low-latency caching at scale.
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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 and dynamic configuration in scalable distributed systems.
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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, watches, leases, and transactions for distributed coordination and c…
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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 scheduled jobs in production systems.
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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 reconfiguration and real-time traffic monitoring without reloads.
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Scalable Systems ApplicationAutoScaling API
The ApplicationAutoScaling API from Scalable Systems — 1 operation(s) for applicationautoscaling.
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Providers working in Scalable Systems
Providers whose own tags share at least two of this topic's tags, most shared first.
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| 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 |
| Microsoft Azure Cdn | Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) caches static web content at strategically placed edge locations to deliver it to users with maximum throughput and minimum latency. The product is operated through the Microsoft.Cdn Azure Resource Mana… | exemplar | 1 |
| Synadia Communications | Synadia Communications, Inc. is the creator and primary maintainer of NATS.io, the CNCF connectivity and messaging system, and sells the commercial platform built on it. Its products are Synadia Cloud (fully managed, globally distributed N… | strong | 2 |
| Amazon Elastic Load Balancing | Amazon Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, and Lambda functions, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance for… | strong | 1 |
| Facets | Facets is an AI-native SDLC orchestrator and platform-engineering control plane that unifies infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD and configuration management into a single declarative blueprint model, so product teams get self-serve, drift-… | strong | 2 |
| The San Francisco Compute Company | The San Francisco Compute Company (SF Compute) runs large-scale, vetted GPU clusters and operates a compute marketplace where buyers reserve H100/H200 capacity by the hour and sellers resell unused compute back into the market with no long… | strong | 1 |
| Nuon | Nuon is a Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) continuous-delivery platform for software vendors. It lets vendors package existing applications — Terraform, Pulumi, Helm charts, Kubernetes manifests, and container images — and deploy them into thei… | strong | 2 |
| Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling | Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling helps you maintain application availability and lets you automatically add or remove EC2 instances according to conditions you define. You can use fleet management features to maintain the health and availability of… | strong | 1 |
| Google Cloud Load Balancing | Google Cloud Load Balancing provides high-performance, scalable load balancing for Google Cloud Platform services, distributing traffic across multiple instances, regions, and backends to ensure reliability and low latency. | developing | 1 |
| Azure Load Balancer | Azure Load Balancer is a high-performance, low-latency layer-4 load balancing service for distributing inbound and outbound network traffic across virtual machines and other Azure resources. It supports public and internal load balancers,… | developing | 2 |
| CAST AI | CAST AI is an Application Performance Automation (APA) platform for Kubernetes that automates cost optimization, autoscaling, workload rightsizing, GPU/LLM workload placement, spot instance selection, and security posture analysis. The pla… | developing | 1 |
| Iron.io | Iron.io provides hosted serverless infrastructure for background processing and asynchronous messaging. Its flagship products are IronMQ, a high-performance hosted message queue for passing messages and events between processes and systems… | developing | 2 |
| Kubernetes Services | Kubernetes Services provide an abstract way to expose an application running on a set of Pods as a network service. They provide stable networking endpoints and load balancing across pod replicas in a Kubernetes cluster. | developing | 5 |
| Celery | Celery is an open-source distributed task queue for Python. It allows you to run tasks asynchronously in the background, enabling scalable distributed systems with support for multiple message brokers (RabbitMQ, Redis, Amazon SQS) and resu… | thin | 8 |
| CloudQuery | CloudQuery is a cloud infrastructure data platform that gives platform engineering and cloud operations teams a queryable SQL data layer for visibility, governance, and automation. It syncs configuration data from AWS, GCP, Azure, and 70+… | thin | 1 |
| Upbound | Upbound is a universal cloud platform built on Crossplane, providing managed control planes and a marketplace for cloud infrastructure APIs. The Upbound API enables programmatic management of organizations, spaces, control planes, package… | thin | 1 |
| Spot by Flexera | Spot by Flexera provides cloud infrastructure automation and optimization solutions. The platform includes Elastigroup for compute workload management across spot, reserved, and on-demand instances, Ocean for Kubernetes and container infra… | thin | 5 |
| Apache Geode | Apache Geode is an in-memory data management platform that provides real-time, consistent access to data-intensive applications throughout widely distributed cloud architectures. It pools memory, CPU, network resources, and local disk stor… | thin | 1 |
| A10 Networks | A10 Networks (NYSE: ATEN) is a San Jose, California–headquartered application delivery and cybersecurity company founded in 2004 by Lee Chen. A10 builds the ACOS (Application Centric Operating System) software platform that powers its Thun… | thin | 1 |
| Apache Curator | Apache Curator is a Java/JVM client library for Apache ZooKeeper, governed by the Apache Software Foundation, that provides a high-level API framework, fluent builders, and pre-built distributed coordination recipes including leader electi… | thin | 1 |
| Moleculer | Moleculer is a fast, modern, and powerful microservices framework for Node.js. It provides built-in service discovery, load balancing, fault tolerance with circuit breaker, request retries, distributed event handling, and support for multi… | thin | 1 |
| Netflix Eureka | Netflix Eureka is a RESTful service registry used for service discovery, load balancing, and failover of middle-tier servers in microservice and cloud-native architectures, originally built for the AWS cloud. | emerging | 1 |
| Alteon | Alteon is Radware's application delivery controller (ADC) and advanced load balancer product line, providing Layer 4-7 load balancing, SSL/TLS offloading, application acceleration, global server load balancing, and integrated application s… | emerging | 0 |
| Go Micro | Go Micro is a distributed systems framework for building microservices in Go, providing service discovery, load balancing, message encoding, RPC, and async messaging out of the box. | emerging | 1 |
| AVI Networks | AVI Networks builds a software-defined application delivery platform - the Avi Vantage Platform / Avi Load Balancer - providing multi-cloud load balancing, web application firewall (WAF), GSLB, container ingress, and analytics driven by a… | minimal | 0 |
| ArrowPoint | ArrowPoint Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARPT) was a networking company based in Acton, Massachusetts that built content switches — Layer 4-7 "web switches" that inspected HTTP content, cookies and URLs to route and load-balance traffic ac… | 0 |
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Auto-ScalingCachingCloud InfrastructureDistributed SystemsHigh AvailabilityInfrastructureLoad BalancingMessage QueuePlatform EngineeringScalable ArchitectureService Discovery