API Gateway

Five Docker containers with REST between them is not a production microservices system. Clients hit a load balancer and API gateway; services own their database…

In microservices architectures, handling authentication, authorization, and rate limiting individually inside every backend service leads to duplicated code, in…

When external partner systems, automated cron daemons, or background backend microservices need to communicate securely over public networks, traditional user-i…

Exposing public REST or GraphQL API endpoints without strict rate limiting guarantees system instability during unexpected traffic bursts or malicious DDoS atta…

Modern microservice architectures require an API Gateway at the edge to handle incoming client traffic, enforce authentication, execute rate limiting, terminate…

Building a single monolithic GraphQL server across dozens of engineering teams creates code ownership conflicts and deployment bottlenecks. A single unhandled e…

Every request into a microservices backend crosses the same narrow point before it reaches any business logic: the API gateway. Under light load, almost any gat…