Let’s talk about API Gateway!

source: Microsoft

Exploring the world of API Gateways, their benefits for developers, and the options offered by Azure Cloud. Ready to take your microservices architecture to the next level? 🚀

🧩 Ever wondered how a client knows what endpoints to call in a microservices architecture? API gateways, acting as reverse proxies, play a crucial role. They simplify client code, reduce coupling, and increase resilience.

🛡️ Without a gateway, services directly exposed to clients can result in complex code, multiple network round trips, and an increased potential attack surface. An API gateway helps mitigate these issues, decoupling clients from services.

⚙️ API Gateways perform multiple functions like Gateway Routing, Aggregation, and Offloading. They handle cross-cutting concerns, making your services more focused and efficient. Features such as SSL termination, authentication, IP allowlist/blocklist, client rate limiting, logging and monitoring can be offloaded to a gateway, reducing service complexity!
- 🔽 Gateway Routing
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/patterns/gateway-routing?WT.mc_id=DT-MVP-5001664
- 🔽 Gateway Aggregation
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/patterns/gateway-aggregation?WT.mc_id=DT-MVP-5001664
- 🔽 Gateway Offloading…