Deploying Your API: Strategies for Secure, Scalable, and Reliable API Deployment
Compares deployment environments, from cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and PaaS services (Heroku, Render) to VPS providers (DigitalOcean) and Docker plus Kubernetes, with honest trade-offs for each. Covers enforcing HTTPS through NGINX reverse proxy configuration, JWT authentication at the endpoint level, a GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline that deploys automatically to Heroku, NGINX load balancing across multiple API instances, AWS Elastic Beanstalk autoscaling, and centralized logging for production troubleshooting.