About the Book
High-Performance API Engineering
Design and Build Fast, Reliable, and Scalable APIs Using Go, Rust, TypeScript, and Modern Architectural Patterns
Modern applications demand APIs that are fast, reliable, scalable, and secure. But building these systems requires more than simply writing endpoints-it requires a deep understanding of distributed systems, performance engineering, efficient programming models, cloud deployment strategies, observability, and real-world optimization techniques.
High-Performance API Engineering is your complete guide to designing, building, deploying, and maintaining world-class APIs using Go, Rust, and TypeScript. Whether you're a backend engineer, full-stack developer, cloud architect, DevOps professional, or engineering leader, this book gives you the practical knowledge needed to build APIs that stand up to real production traffic and scale with confidence.
This book goes far beyond syntax and frameworks. It teaches you how APIs actually behave in real environments, how they fail, how they scale, and how to optimize them from the inside out. You'll gain a complete understanding of modern API engineering-from code and architecture to containers, CI/CD automation, Kubernetes, observability, and high-performance tuning.
What You Will Learn
✔️ Core API Architecture
REST, gRPC, GraphQL, and event-driven communication
Clean, modular API design patterns
Serialization choices and their impact on performance
✔️ Building High-Performance APIs
Go concurrency, optimized HTTP servers, and memory-efficient design
Rust's safety and zero-cost abstractions for ultra-fast endpoints
TypeScript performance tuning using Fastify, NestJS, and Node internals
✔️ Performance Engineering
Minimizing latency and maximizing throughput
Profiling CPU, memory, and I/O bottlenecks
Effective caching and load distribution patterns
✔️ Scalability & Distributed Systems
Microservices vs monoliths vs modular monoliths
API gateways, reverse proxies, and edge routing
Event-driven architectures and asynchronous workflows
✔️ Security Essentials
Authentication and authorization done right
Input validation and data protection
Rate limiting, quotas, and safe secrets management
✔️ Production Operations
Distributed tracing, metrics, and logging
Health checks, failover strategies, and redundancy
SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for reliable systems
✔️ Cloud Deployment & Automation
Container optimization and multi-stage builds
Kubernetes deployments and autoscaling
CI/CD pipelines for Go, Rust, and TypeScript
Serverless deployment patterns for cost and speed
✔️ Real-World Performance Case Studies
Benchmarks across Go, Rust, and TypeScript
Serialization performance comparisons
Scaling experiments and latency breakdowns
Lessons learned from real production outages
Who This Book Is For
Backend developers who want to build fast, scalable APIs
Cloud and DevOps engineers who manage production workloads
Architects designing distributed systems
Intermediate developers aiming to move into senior or lead roles
Anyone who wants to understand how high-performance backend systems are truly built
No matter your current skill level, you'll learn techniques that apply directly to real projects and production systems.
Why This Book Matters
Most API books teach frameworks. This book teaches engineering.
You'll understand why systems behave as they do, how to measure real performance, and what it takes to build APIs that deliver consistent, predictable results day after day, under real production load.
With practical examples, detailed explanations, code samples, and real benchmarks, this book gives you the confidence and expertise to design APIs that are both elegant and extremely fast.
