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API Gateway vs Load Balancer

629 words·Updated 2026-07-18·
#api-gateway#load-balancing#service-mesh#system-design
Accompanying Lab
Load Balancer From Scratch
A tiny L7 request router with health checks, round-robin routing, least-connections routing, and forwarded request metadata.
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Primary References & Engineering Sources
  • ·[[wiki/arpit-distributed-systems]]
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