Microservices Design Patterns in .NET

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Implementing the API and BFF Gateway Patterns

When building an application using the microservices architectural approach, we have come to realize that we will need to keep track of several API endpoints. We have effectively gone from one endpoint, which would have been made available through a monolith, to a series of endpoints. Some of these endpoints will be called by other APIs and some will integrate directly into the client applications that interact with the microservices.

This becomes a challenge because we end up conflating the client application with custom logic to cater to integrating with the various services and possibly orchestrating inter-service communications. We want to keep the client application code as simple and extensible ...