--- title: Best Practices for Scaling Your Node.js REST APIs description: Use throttling at the first junction point between your application and the News Feed Service. Use the ELK stack for setting up a good logging and alerting... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/best-practices-for-scaling-your-node-js-rest-apis-4nu2ywmmo twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Practices for Scaling Your Node.js REST APIs | daily.dev og:description: Use throttling at the first junction point between your application and the News Feed Service. Use the ELK stack for setting up a good logging and alerting... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/best-practices-for-scaling-your-node-js-rest-apis-4nu2ywmmo og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/4nu2YWmmO.png og:image:alt: Best Practices for Scaling Your Node.js REST APIs og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Best Practices for Scaling Your Node.js REST APIs **[freeCodeCamp](https://daily.dev/sources/freecodecamp)** · [@rishabh570](https://daily.dev/rishabh570) · 31 min read · 180 upvotes · 20 comments ## Summary Use throttling at the first junction point between your application and the News Feed Service. Use the ELK stack for setting up a good logging and alerting pipeline. If a request goes through multiple services during the lifecycle, you can pass along a unique ID in the logs to capture a particular request across all the services. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@egmz** · 2 upvotes > Great article! **@d4nm0** · 1 upvotes > Awesome article **@kliton** · 1 upvotes > Very nice ;) **@devrobert** · 1 upvotes > Awesome and Practical **@noumanurrahman** · 1 upvotes > This article really helps me a lot. Thanks for this great article!!! ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#performance](https://daily.dev/tags/performance), [#logging](https://daily.dev/tags/logging), [#database](https://daily.dev/tags/database), [#kafka](https://daily.dev/tags/kafka) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/best-practices-for-scaling-your-node-js-rest-apis-4nu2ywmmo) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Best Practices for Scaling Your Node.js REST APIs","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/best-practices-for-scaling-your-node-js-rest-apis-4nu2ywmmo","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/best-practices-for-scaling-your-node-js-rest-apis-4nu2ywmmo"},"datePublished":"2022-09-15T18:33:13.178Z","dateModified":"2022-09-15T18:33:13.109Z","description":"Use throttling at the first junction point between your application and the News Feed Service. 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