August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
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An edge service is an intermediary component that is exposed to both the outside world and the downstream services. It works as a gateway that allows for interaction between all the services around it. The following diagram shows how an edge service is used:

Note that all the incoming requests are pointing directly to the edge service, which will later look for the right service to redirect the request properly.
Edge services are used in different ways to add additional behavior or functionalities according to the services around them. The most common example is a cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS ...
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