API Gateway
Explore the types of API Gateways and its various features.
API Gateway is a fully managed service that allows us to create, publish, monitor, and maintain APIs. Essentially, API Gateway acts as a bridge, enabling seamless interactions between various services, applications, or microservices.
An API acts as the front door for our backend application services. Traditionally, developers would write code to route requests with the backend. However, integrating a managed service such as an API gateway to route requests to the backend can spare the developer from writing code. With an API gateway, we can put multiple backends behind a single domain that work together as a complete agile enterprise application.
API Gateway supports various API protocols such as HTTP APIs, REST APIs, Web Socket APIs, Mock APIs, GraphQL APIs, and SOAP APIs.
API Gateway features
API Gateway offers a range of features to facilitate API development, deployment, and management.
Service integration
Service integration in API Gateway refers to the process of connecting our API Gateway with backend services or resources. API Gateway serves as a central entry point for managing and securing APIs, and integrating it with various services allows us to seamlessly route, process, and transform requests and ...