Reading Time: 6 minutes What is an API? Why do we need it? An API gateway is programming that sits in front of an API ( Application Programming Interface) and is the single-entry point for defined back-end APIs and microservices (which can be both internal and external). Sitting in front of APIs, the gateway acts as protection, administering security and scalability, and high availability. To put it simply, API Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes Introduction First of all, we will know what is “Spring Cloud Gateway”. Spring Cloud Gateway provides a library for building API gateways on top of Spring and Java. API gateway is the single entry point to multiple microservices. On the other hand, we can understand that any external system can not access all other microservices directly. It can access through only one common entry to Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes Cross-cutting requirements in Microservices like authentication, authorization, load balancing, rate limiting etc. also required to be implemented. But the question is where it needs to be implemented. Here, no prices for guesses, it should be thorough API Gateway or Edge server only. ‘Spring Cloud Gateway’, a successor of ‘Netflix Zuul’ and pretty good in fulfilling such demands. The first level benefit of Spring Cloud Gateway Continue Reading
