fpereiro/backendlore

Features

• JSON API Frameworks - Provides a framework for building JSON-based HTTP APIs with support for diverse data exchange and multipart file transfers.
• Node.js Backend Services - Provides a comprehensive architecture guide for building stateless JSON APIs using Node.js and reverse proxies.
• CSRF Protection - Secures state-changing requests by requiring and verifying session-bound tokens.
• Middleware Route Filters - Uses a chain of route filters to enforce authentication and administrative access control for incoming requests.
• Route-Level Access Guards - Filters traffic through gatekeeper routes to distinguish between public, authenticated, and administrative access.
• Cookie-Based Session Management - Manages user identities using cryptographically signed cookies with database-backed expiry and automatic renewal.
• User Identity Management - Secures user identities using hashed passwords, cryptographically signed session cookies, and CSRF tokens.
• Stateless Architectures - Offloads all application state to external databases and filesystems to facilitate horizontal scaling and debugging.
• API Design Patterns - Implements a stateless API design pattern that offloads application state to external databases and memory stores.
• JSON APIs - Implements a JSON-based HTTP API layer featuring request payload validation and structured data exchange.
• Request Middleware - Processes incoming requests through a sequence of middleware for logging, authentication, and access control.
• Request Validation - Implements synchronous and asynchronous validation rules for incoming request payloads to ensure server stability and security.
• REST API Implementations - Establishes implementation standards for REST APIs including payload validation and session management.
• API Response Caching - Reduces bandwidth and duplicate transfers by using response body markers or file metadata for caching.
• Cloud Storage Synchronization - Synchronizes local media caches with remote cloud object stores for a balance of speed and durability.
• Hybrid Local-S3 Storage - Combines local filesystem caching for high-speed delivery with cloud object stores for durable long-term persistence.
• Cloud Object Storage - Integrates cloud object storage for long-term data durability combined with local caching for performance.
• In-Memory Data Stores - Enables storing application state in high-performance memory stores with optional persistence to durable storage.
• Hash-Based Staleness Tracking - Optimizes client-side storage by tracking response body changes to determine content staleness.
• Hash-Based Validation - Tracks changes in response bodies using hashes to determine when client-side cached content is stale.
• Cloud Storage Integrations - Implements a hybrid storage strategy combining local filesystem caching with remote cloud object store persistence.
• Linux Deployment Utilities - Ships a manual deployment process for Linux servers covering code delivery, environment provisioning, and migrations.
• Reverse Proxy Configurations - Handles HTTPS termination and forwards traffic to non-root application processes via a proxy server.
• Reverse Proxy Configurations - Handles HTTPS termination and forwards traffic to non-root application processes via a dedicated reverse proxy server.
• Database Schema Migrations - Provides a workflow for updating production database schemas using tested scripts and backup verification.
• Event Notification Pipelines - Funnels all system errors and lifecycle events through a centralized pipeline for uniform logging and alerting.
• Process-Based Scaling - Spawns multiple worker processes to utilize all processor cores with automatic recovery from individual process failures.

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