API GATEWAY
What Does API Gateway Mean?
API Gateway is a centralized layer positioned between clients and backend services that manages API traffic. Particularly in a microservices architecture, managing all requests through an API Gateway instead of exposing dozens of different services individually to clients creates a more secure and sustainable structure. An API Gateway performs many critical functions, including routing incoming requests to the relevant service, authentication, authorization, load balancing, rate limiting, caching, SSL termination, and request logging. This allows client applications to communicate through a single endpoint without needing to know the details of the backend services. In addition, scaling services or making architectural changes does not directly affect the client side.
API Gateway solutions offer significant advantages in terms of performance, security, and manageability for cloud-based applications, mobile applications, web services, and distributed systems. Today, solutions such as Kong, NGINX, Apigee, Amazon API Gateway, and Azure API Management are widely used by organizations seeking to centralize their API management processes.
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