The API Gateway
The decomposition of an application into small, intelligent, and well-defined components is an important design pattern in the world of cloud computing. These components are the microservices that bind the application business together. However, the control of these microservices, as seen in Chapter 7, Microservice Patterns, is a complex task as the functionalities grow in the application history. One solution to this problem is called the API Gateway. As the API Gateway has already been explored in detail, in Chapter 7, Microservice Patterns, we will only cover it briefly now.
The API Gateway serves as a frontend for cloud-application clients. Sometimes, the request is a simple call to a specific microservice, but often the ...
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