Concept to Completion: Building a Lumen API handling in Excess of 10M requests per day
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A product manager recounts building a high-throughput Basket API (handling >10M requests/day) that replaced a legacy application, covering KPI conflicts, stakeholder-driven data structures and endpoint behavior for baskets and wishlists, and strategies for tracking merchandise availability. The talk explains the chosen application architecture using Lumen, how the team leveraged the framework for security, scalability, fault-tolerance and a three-week delivery window, and reviews operational concerns like logging, monitoring, backups, extensibility and lessons learned.
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