In 2010, scaling a web application often meant one thing: buy a bigger server. Today, that idea sounds almost quaint. Modern scalable software architecture no longer revolves around hardware upgrades alone. Instead, it relies on distributed systems, cloud-native design, API-first thinking, and continuous delivery pipelines that evolve in real time. In other words, scalability is…
Most users never see them. Most users never think about them. Yet APIs—Application Programming Interfaces—are the hidden scaffolding of the digital world. Every time you book a flight, send a Slack message, or check your bank balance, APIs quietly orchestrate the exchange of data between systems. They don’t make headlines, but they enable every interaction,…