July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
414 pages
11h 18m
English
The Service gateway or API gateway provides a level of indirection by either proxying service endpoints or composing multiple service endpoints. The API gateway is also useful for policy enforcements and routing. The API gateway can also be used for real-time load balancing in some cases.
There are many API gateways available in the market. Spring Cloud Zuul, Mashery, Apigee, Kong, WSO2, and 3scale are some examples of the API gateway providers.
We will discuss the API gateway using Spring Cloud in Chapter 7, Scale Microservices with Spring Cloud Components.
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