This article compares four API‑gateway solutions—Spring Cloud Gateway, NGINX, Envoy, and Kong—detailing their core strengths, drawbacks, suitable scenarios, configuration snippets, and practical selection rules to help architects pick the right gateway for microservice systems.
The article details a cloud‑native gateway design that solves the zero‑loss routing and session‑persistence challenges of massive AI sandbox Web VNC streams by dissecting protocol stages, exposing classic gateway pitfalls, and presenting a two‑phase URL‑plus‑cookie routing architecture built on OpenResty, Lua, and Redis.
This guide explains why Agnes’s newly free multimodal models are attractive compared to costly Claude and Codex subscriptions, reviews their benchmark rankings, details the zero‑price pricing, and provides step‑by‑step instructions for connecting the common OpenAI‑compatible gateway to eight popular agent tools, including OpenClaw, HermesAgents, Claude Code/Desktop via cc‑switch, WorkBuddy, Cherry Studio, Opencode, and Codex++.
In a micro‑service architecture, a centralized gateway eliminates the need for front‑ends to call dozens of services by handling authentication, rate‑limiting, logging, CORS, and security, and Spring Cloud Gateway—built on WebFlux and Netty—offers a non‑blocking, high‑throughput alternative to Zuul with detailed configuration and code examples for production use.
The article analyzes various API architecture patterns—monolithic API, microservice API, API Gateway, BFF, Service Mesh, API Mesh, Strangler Pattern, event‑driven API, and GraphQL Federation—explaining their origins, trade‑offs, hidden costs, and suitability for different team sizes and business scenarios, ultimately showing how the right pattern ensures long‑term system evolution and scalability.
The article walks senior developers through seven core Spring Boot 3.5.0 concepts—resilience with Resilience4j, observability via Actuator, distributed transactions using Saga, advanced caching, asynchronous processing, API‑gateway routing, and OAuth2/JWT security—providing concrete code snippets, configuration examples, and visual illustrations for each technique.
The article explains why, despite the apparent speed of direct internal service calls, using an API gateway provides essential benefits such as unified governance, version‑aware routing, protocol translation, security isolation, and high‑availability traffic buffering, making it a worthwhile trade‑off in most microservice environments.
The article breaks down ds2api, an open‑source Go middleware that instantly converts DeepSeek’s protocol to OpenAI, Claude, and Google formats, supports multi‑account rotation, and can be deployed via binary, Docker, or Vercel Serverless in minutes.
This article explains why a gateway is needed in a Spring Cloud microservice architecture, compares Spring Cloud Gateway with Zuul, introduces its core concepts of routes, predicates, and filters, and provides step‑by‑step code examples for dependency setup, configuration, custom authentication and logging filters, rate limiting, circuit breaking, troubleshooting tips, and a complete gateway configuration for a blog system.
This article provides a detailed technical overview of Spring Cloud Gateway, covering its role as a second‑generation API gateway built on Spring 5, WebFlux, and Reactor, its core responsibilities, architectural placement, key concepts like routes, predicates and filters, the request processing flow, and a concrete YAML configuration example.
The article explains that without a gateway each microservice must duplicate authentication, rate‑limiting, logging and other cross‑cutting concerns, leading to maintenance overhead and security risks, and shows how a gateway centralises these functions while providing routing, load‑balancing, circuit‑breaking and observability, backed by real‑world code examples and a comparative analysis of popular gateway solutions.
The article analyzes recent supply‑chain poisoning of the LiteLLM PyPI package and Docker Hub images, explains why PyPI is an attractive attack vector, and details a three‑layer defense using Alibaba Cloud's cloud‑native API Gateway—including KMS‑encrypted credentials, WAF traffic filtering, and Wasm sandbox plugins—to protect the software supply chain.
The article explains why passing tokens between microservices is a poor design, illustrates the problems with mixed internal‑external APIs, and presents three practical alternatives—explicit parameter passing, centralized authentication via an API gateway with Spring Cloud Gateway and Feign, and a shared auth module with K8s integration—detailing their pros, cons, and implementation steps.
This guide explains the challenges of managing multiple AI models in Dify, introduces the Higress AI Gateway plugin that provides unified model access, governance, and fine‑grained authentication, and walks through two practical demos—an Agent assistant and an image‑generation workflow—showing step‑by‑step configuration and usage.
This article surveys common microservice design patterns—including decomposition, integration, event‑driven, cross‑cutting concerns, and observability—explaining their goals, trade‑offs, and practical implementation steps to help architects build scalable, resilient backend systems.
When a Spring Boot service faces tens of thousands of QPS, stability depends less on code tweaks and more on how traffic is intercepted, distributed, and throttled across edge, gateway, Kubernetes, client, and mesh layers, making a layered load‑balancing architecture essential.
To keep Spring Boot applications stable under tens of thousands to millions of requests per second, this guide explains why load balancing evolves from a simple traffic splitter to a multi‑layer system and details seven critical strategies—from edge CDN to service mesh—required for resilient, cost‑effective high‑concurrency deployments.
Even with Nginx handling high‑performance load balancing and static content, a dedicated API gateway is essential for flexible routing, dynamic service discovery, fine‑grained traffic governance, and centralized business logic such as authentication and logging in microservice architectures.
The article recounts a developer’s successful rewrite of a Python/Flask API gateway in Go that delivered ten‑fold throughput, one‑third memory usage, and seconds‑level deployment, but caused no user‑visible latency gain, created a single point of failure, and sparked a broader discussion on technical decisions, business value, and team bus factor.
The article breaks down seven layered load‑balancing strategies—from edge CDN to traffic shaping—that a Spring Boot system must adopt to control latency, isolate failures, manage cost, and gracefully degrade when handling tens of millions of concurrent requests.
This article walks through refactoring a tightly‑coupled Go API gateway into a lightweight, plugin‑driven microkernel architecture, detailing the motivation, design of core abstractions, code examples, and the resulting gains in extensibility, maintainability, and flexibility.
This article explains the role of an API gateway in microservice architectures, walks through configuring the micro framework’s gateway with options like address, namespace and handler, shows how to modify server and client code, and demonstrates testing the gateway using curl.
This article explains how LApiGateway leverages the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to enable AI clients to access existing HTTP RPC services without code changes, detailing the protocol basics, current challenges, the gateway's architecture, implementation steps, and the resulting operational benefits.
This article explores why API gateways are essential in microservice architectures, outlines core design functions such as routing, load balancing, authentication, rate limiting, and protocol translation, and provides practical code examples, performance‑tuning strategies, technology comparisons, and deployment guidelines for robust backend systems.
This article reviews essential tools and formats—such as Postman, Apidog, Swagger/OpenAPI, and API gateways like Amazon API Gateway and Kong—that help backend developers efficiently save, document, and manage HTTP API information throughout the development lifecycle.
This article walks through designing and implementing an enterprise‑grade API gateway with Nginx and OpenResty, covering architecture, dynamic routing, load balancing, rate limiting, circuit breaking, authentication, request transformation, caching strategies, observability, high‑availability deployment, and real‑world performance results.
This article explains the role of an access gateway, outlines its architecture and core functions, and demonstrates how to design and implement a dynamic, plugin‑based gateway using OpenResty (Nginx + Lua), including routing, shared data, and dynamic upstream management.
This article explains how cloud‑native game services can achieve precise, state‑aware connection management and graceful shutdown by combining OpenKruiseGame with a cloud‑native API gateway, detailing the challenges of seven‑layer networking, the custom lifecycle hooks, deployment steps, and the benefits of zero‑downtime configuration changes.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Spring Cloud Gateway, covering its role as a reactive API gateway, core functionalities such as routing, security authentication, rate limiting, logging, circuit breaking, the request lifecycle, and a comparison with other gateway solutions.
This article traces the evolution of API gateways and API management from early traffic and microservice gateways to cloud-native and AI-focused solutions, compares their core responsibilities, roles, and technical foundations, and outlines how they can be integrated and what future trends, such as AI gateways and MCP servers, may bring to modern software architectures.
This article introduces Spring Cloud Gateway as a high‑performance replacement for Zuul, explains its core components (Route, Predicate, Filter) and request flow, provides step‑by‑step setup of a gateway project, demonstrates route configuration, custom GlobalFilter and GatewayFilter implementations, and validates the behavior with example requests.
This article explains the design of an AI gateway that centralizes LLM access, detailing its background, overall architecture, authentication, quota management, multi‑model routing, load‑balancing strategies, multi‑tenant isolation, observability features, and the supported API protocols for enterprise integration.
This article walks through the background, architecture, and practical implementation of a Spring Cloud Zuul service gateway, showing how to create the gateway project, enable Zuul, configure Eureka registration, build a sample business microservice, and test request routing and load balancing.
This article narrates a dramatic front‑end takeover during a high‑traffic promotion, then provides a step‑by‑step guide to building a Node.js backend service with Express, MongoDB, JWT authentication, and deployment considerations, illustrating performance trade‑offs between Java and Node.js.
This article details how Ctrip's Soft Load Balancer (SLB) transitioned from a simple Nginx reverse‑proxy to a multi‑datacenter, dynamic routing gateway using OpenResty, Lua scripts, and a three‑layer architecture that eliminates reloads and supports high‑frequency configuration updates.
This article explains how Server‑Sent Events (SSE) and WebSocket provide the low‑latency, bidirectional communication required by large language model applications, compares them with traditional HTTP/HTTPS protocols, outlines technical challenges such as gateway stability, bandwidth and security, and offers practical implementation steps and mitigation strategies.
This article explains the API‑First development approach, outlines its core principles and benefits, demonstrates how to model and manage API gateway policies with concrete JSON examples, and shows how cloud‑native tools like Alibaba Cloud API Gateway support the full API lifecycle from design to monitoring.
Microservice architecture, once a buzzword, breaks monolithic applications into independent services, but introduces challenges such as service governance, communication, gateway management, fault tolerance, and tracing; the article outlines these issues and presents practical solutions like Consul/Eureka, REST/RPC, API gateways, Hystrix, and tracing tools.
This article explains the fundamental concepts of API gateways, their role in decoupling clients from services, key design considerations such as routing, load balancing, resilience and security, and provides a detailed comparison of popular gateway solutions like OpenResty, Kong, Zuul, and Spring Cloud Gateway.
This tutorial introduces Spring Cloud Gateway, explains its core features and Actuator integration, and provides step‑by‑step practical examples for viewing routes, global filters, route filters, refreshing routes, managing routes via REST endpoints, creating and deleting routes, and sharing routes with Redis, all accompanied by code snippets and configuration details.
This article introduces Apache ShenYu, a high‑performance, visual API gateway, walks through Docker‑based installation of its admin and bootstrap containers, demonstrates HTTP proxy and address‑rewrite configuration for a SpringBoot e‑commerce project, and shows how to enable rate‑limiting using the built‑in plugins.
This article explains the relationship between API gateways and service meshes, compares exposure methods, and provides a detailed, step‑by‑step guide for exposing services inside an Istio mesh using an Nginx Ingress Controller, including required annotations and configuration details.
This article consolidates a series of ByteMonk videos covering essential microservice architecture patterns—including service registration and discovery with Eureka, API gateway design, event‑driven architecture, service mesh, aggregator pattern, per‑service databases, bulkhead and strangler patterns, and monolith decomposition case studies—providing practical insights for building scalable, resilient systems.
This article explains three practical approaches—microservice isolation, Redis‑based whitelist, and gateway‑AOP header checks—to restrict APIs to internal calls only, and provides detailed Spring Cloud code examples for the preferred AOP solution.
This article introduces microservice architecture, explains its advantages and disadvantages, and details ten essential design patterns—including Database per Service, Event Sourcing, CQRS, Saga, BFF, API Gateway, Strangler, Circuit Breaker, Externalized Configuration, and Consumer‑Driven Contract Testing—while providing guidance on when to apply each pattern and offering technology examples.
This article explains what an API gateway is, outlines its core data‑plane and control‑plane functions, compares popular open‑source gateways such as Nginx, Zuul, Spring Cloud Gateway, Kong and Traefik, and then details a custom Traefik‑based microservice gateway built with Go and Etcd.
This article compares Kong, Gloo, and Higress on their AI‑related extensions—covering tech stacks, logging, proxy normalization, API‑key handling, caching, request/response rewriting, and RAG support—to help developers choose the most suitable gateway for emerging LLM workloads.
This article analyzes the emerging AI Gateway market, compares major products such as Kong, Gloo, Higress, Portkey, and OneAPI, and provides a detailed technical review of Cloudflare AI Gateway’s architecture, capabilities, advantages, limitations, and practical usage for LLM integration.
This article explains the AI Agent concept, introduces the AI Gateway plugin architecture, walks through zero‑code deployment of an AI Agent using Higress with AMap and Seniverse services, and details the ReAct‑based reasoning and tool‑calling implementation with code examples and workflow diagrams.
This article provides an in‑depth overview of API gateway concepts, design principles, key features such as routing, load balancing, security, resilience, and compares popular gateway solutions like OpenResty, Kong, Zuul, and Spring Cloud Gateway for microservice architectures.
The article compares token‑based authentication options for Java microservices—stateless JWTs, OAuth 2.0 with access and refresh tokens, a centralized API‑gateway authority, and internal service‑to‑service schemes—guiding readers on selecting the best approach according to security, scalability, and business needs.
This article explains what an API gateway is, outlines its core functions such as routing, load balancing, security, rate limiting, aggregation and caching, and reviews ten popular gateway solutions—including Amazon API Gateway, Kong, Apigee, NGINX, Tyk, MuleSoft Anypoint, Azure API Management, IBM API Connect, Kubernetes‑native options, and Traefik—highlighting their key features and typical use cases.
This guide walks through creating a full‑featured AI‑native API gateway using Higress, covering architecture setup, AI agent integration, observability, content security, token rate limiting, caching, retrieval‑augmented generation, prompt templates, and intelligent request/response transformation with concrete configuration examples.
This article breaks down complex B2B e‑commerce permission scenarios—including multi‑client authentication, role‑based and identity‑based authorization, and a conceptual model—providing clear design points and practical implementation guidance for secure, scalable systems.
This article explains what a service gateway is, why it is needed in microservice systems, and provides practical technology choices such as Java, Spring Boot, Netflix Zuul, Consul, JWT, Prometheus, and ELK to implement routing, filtering, security, monitoring, and logging.
The article explains how microservice architectures handle inter‑service calls using RPC or event‑driven approaches, analyzes different coupling types, compares event notification with event sourcing, and offers practical guidance on API gateways, service composition, and when to choose each communication style.
This article explains what a service gateway is, why it is essential for microservice architectures, outlines its core functions and design considerations, and presents a practical Java‑based technology stack including Spring Boot, Netflix Zuul, Consul, JWT, Prometheus, and ELK.
This case study details how the AiFenxi business intelligence platform integrated Apache APISIX as a high‑performance API gateway within Tencent Cloud TKE, addressing latency, scalability, and security challenges, and outlines the architectural changes, deployment steps, and resulting performance improvements.
This article explains the concept of API gateways, compares popular solutions such as Kong, Zuul, Spring Cloud Gateway and Tyk, details Kong's architecture, features, performance benchmarks, deployment scenarios, monitoring setup, and the practical problems encountered with their resolutions.
This article details how a large‑scale Elasticsearch deployment was transformed from physical servers to a Kubernetes‑based, containerized architecture, addressing cost, scalability, API compatibility, security, observability, and multi‑cloud migration using the 极限网关 API gateway.
AI gateways have emerged as essential infrastructure for modern AI applications, offering specialized security, load balancing, cost management, and observability that go beyond traditional API gateways, and understanding their differences and deployment considerations is crucial for developers and ops teams.
This article explains what Zuul is, why it’s essential for microservice architectures as a unified API gateway, how it works through filter chains, and the key functions it provides such as dynamic routing, load balancing, security, and request aggregation.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Spring Cloud, detailing its core components—including Zuul, Eureka, Ribbon, Feign, Config, and Sleuth—their definitions, roles, underlying principles, and how they work together to enable robust microservice architectures.
This article explains how a complex supply‑chain platform with dozens of services and two client apps can be reorganized by introducing a gateway, an API aggregation layer, and a Backend‑for‑Frontend (BFF) pattern to reduce service coupling, simplify interface placement, and improve client‑specific adaptations.
This article explains what a service gateway is, why it is essential for microservice architectures, outlines its core functions such as routing, filtering, authentication, monitoring, and presents a practical Java‑based technical stack including Spring Boot, Zuul, Consul, JWT, Prometheus, ELK and JMeter.
This article explains what a microservice gateway is, outlines the advantages of Spring Cloud Gateway, and provides step‑by‑step instructions with code examples to create, configure, and run a reactive API gateway for Java microservices.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of microservice architecture, detailing its definition, key characteristics, major design patterns such as Database per Service, Event Sourcing, CQRS, Saga, BFF, API Gateway, Strangler, Circuit Breaker, externalized configuration, and contract testing, along with their pros, cons, and appropriate scenarios for adoption in large‑scale enterprise applications.
This article explains the roles, differences, and use‑cases of API gateways, load balancers, and reverse proxies, covering real‑world analogies, types, algorithms, advantages, disadvantages, and practical product examples to help you choose the right component for modern web architectures.
The article explains the different types of coupling in microservice architectures, compares RPC and event‑driven communication—including event notification and event sourcing—discusses their trade‑offs, and offers practical guidance on choosing and combining these approaches for scalable backend systems.
This article introduces Spring Cloud Gateway as a high‑performance, reactive API gateway for microservice architectures, explains why it is chosen, details Maven and YAML configuration, demonstrates routing predicates and filters with code examples, and evaluates its performance impact compared to alternatives.
API gateways act as reverse proxies that streamline request routing, API composition, and authentication, enabling the creation of collaborative ecosystems, thriving API marketplaces, and seamless cross‑platform compatibility, ultimately simplifying access and boosting productivity for developers and users alike.
Apache Shenyu is a high‑performance, open‑source API gateway built on the reactive WebFlux framework that unifies API management and security through a flexible plugin architecture offering authentication, traffic control, circuit breaking, request rewriting, logging, and monitoring, while delivering extensibility, low latency, and future cloud‑native integration.
Instead of forwarding JWTs through every microservice, the gateway should validate the token, extract the userId and send it as a header, keeping internal services stateless, while developers can choose among Feign, Dubbo, or combined Spring‑Boot/Dubbo patterns, optionally using a shared auth module and Kubernetes ingress for discovery, as the optimal architecture depends on project needs.
This article walks through creating a lightweight API gateway in Go using the standard net/http/httputil ReverseProxy, explains its core concepts, compares it with other gateway solutions, and provides a complete, runnable example that routes authentication and user services.
This article explains the relationship between API gateways and service meshes, compares four methods for exposing services inside an Istio mesh, and provides a step‑by‑step guide to using Nginx Ingress Controller as the mesh entry point.
This article introduces Spring Cloud Gateway as a powerful tool for building scalable microservice gateways, explains its reactive architecture and advantages, and provides a step‑by‑step tutorial—including Maven dependency, route configuration, custom filter code, and deployment instructions—plus suggestions for advanced features.
This guide walks through installing APISIX, defining security and functional requirements, developing a Java decryption plugin and a Lua body‑rewrite plugin, configuring them with Docker and APISIX, and setting up route rules to enable encrypted API traffic in a cloud‑native environment.
This article presents a comprehensive analysis of the limitations of Spring Cloud Gateway, proposes a self‑developed API gateway architecture called DAG, details its core components such as request context, filter chain, async client, routing, and connection management, and demonstrates through extensive performance testing that DAG achieves significantly higher throughput, lower latency, and improved stability compared to the original SCG solution.
TangoFlow is a low‑code, flow‑based programming platform that lets NetEase Cloud Music developers visually assemble, debug, and deploy backend service orchestrations via drag‑and‑drop nodes, generating DSL for execution, reducing script sprawl, resource waste, and governance gaps while integrating with the existing Tango UI.
This article details how a data‑compliance company evaluated several cloud‑native API gateways, selected Higress for its Kubernetes‑native architecture, built custom Wasm plugins, leveraged HTTP‑to‑Dubbo conversion, migrated from Nginx Ingress, and achieved higher performance and operational simplicity.
Apache ShenYu is a high‑performance, reactive Java API gateway offering dynamic traffic control, hot‑plug plugins, multi‑protocol support, observability, and easy deployment, with detailed module descriptions, quick Docker‑based startup commands, selector and rule routing concepts, and data synchronization mechanisms.
This guide explains what a microservice gateway is, outlines the advantages of Spring Cloud Gateway, and provides a step‑by‑step tutorial—including Maven dependency, YAML routing configuration, custom filter code, and deployment instructions—to help developers build scalable, reactive API gateways for modern backend systems.
This article explains how Ctrip’s API gateway, built on Java, Netty and RxJava, evolved from a Zuul‑based design to a fully asynchronous, single‑threaded architecture that processes 200 billion daily requests, detailing core components, streaming forwarding, performance optimizations, governance, multi‑protocol support, routing and module orchestration.
This article explains the microservice architecture style, its evolution from monoliths, the technical challenges it introduces, compares leading open‑source solutions such as Dubbo, Spring Cloud Netflix, and Spring Cloud Alibaba, and details essential components like service registries, configuration centers, API gateways, tracing, fault tolerance, and monitoring.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of API gateways, covering their basic concepts, design considerations, key features such as routing, load balancing, resilience and security, and compares popular implementations like OpenResty, Kong, Zuul, and Spring Cloud Gateway.
This article details Ctrip’s API gateway architecture, describing its evolution to handle 20 billion daily requests through fully asynchronous processing, streaming forwarding, single‑threaded event‑loop design, and various performance and governance optimizations, while also covering multi‑protocol compatibility, routing, and module orchestration.
This article explains what a service gateway is—combining routing and filters—covers why it is needed for centralized cross‑cutting concerns such as authentication, rate limiting and monitoring, describes the architecture and request flow with gateway, open‑service and microservices, and recommends a Java‑based stack including Spring Boot, Netflix Zuul, Consul, JWT, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK and JMeter.
This article explains what an API gateway is, why it is needed in micro‑service architectures, outlines key design considerations such as routing, load‑balancing, resilience and security, and compares popular open‑source gateway solutions like OpenResty, Kong, Zuul and Spring Cloud Gateway.
This article provides a comprehensive guide to Kubernetes Gateway API, covering its evolution from Ingress, core concepts, resource types, configuration examples, role‑based design, cross‑namespace routing, and practical steps for installation, deployment, and management using Istio and other controllers.
To overcome Spring Cloud Gateway’s memory leaks, slow O(N) routing and complex reactive code, the team built a custom, thread‑per‑core Netty gateway with in‑memory O(1) route lookup, DAG‑based filter chains and an asynchronous client, delivering four‑times higher throughput (≈45 k QPS), ~19 ms ART, no leaks, and far‑reduced latency.
This article introduces Spring Cloud Gateway as a unified entry point for microservices, explains its core functions, compares it with Zuul, provides Maven and YAML configuration examples, details route definitions, filter types and ordering, shows how to implement custom filters, and demonstrates CORS solutions using both YAML and Java code.
This comprehensive guide explains what API gateways are, why they are essential in micro‑service architectures, outlines core design concepts such as routing, load‑balancing, elasticity and security, compares popular implementations like Kong, Zuul and Spring Cloud Gateway, and offers practical design considerations for high‑performance, highly‑available, and scalable gateway solutions.
This article explains why BFF is needed in modern microservice architectures, describes thin and thick BFF designs, outlines typical inter‑process microservice structures, enumerates common BFF problems, and proposes governance principles to keep BFF focused on front‑end experience and backend orchestration.
This article explains the purpose of an API gateway, introduces Spring Cloud Gateway as a modern, WebFlux‑based solution, outlines its features, core concepts such as routes, predicates and filters, shows configuration examples, dynamic routing, and how to create custom predicates and filters for microservice architectures.
Meiqia, a global intelligent cloud‑customer‑service provider, replaced a tangled multi‑middleware routing stack with a unified Higress gateway, achieving hot‑reloadable routing, WebSocket stability, multi‑cloud deployment, and a clear control‑plane/data‑plane separation that dramatically reduced costs and operational complexity.
This guide explains how the cloud‑native Higress gateway can lower the expense of using AI large models by centralising API keys, applying rate‑limiting, request filtering, and usage monitoring, and demonstrates a complete OpenAI integration using a WASM plugin with code samples and configuration details.
This article dissects the inner workings of Netflix’s Zuul gateway, contrasting its servlet‑based blocking model with Spring Cloud Gateway’s reactive approach, and walks through route collection, handler registration, request processing, and filter loading, complete with key Java code examples.
This article explains what microservices are, when they should be used, their pros and cons, communication patterns, why Node.js is a good fit, and provides a detailed NestJS‑based implementation with code examples for building, testing, and exposing a user‑management microservice through an API gateway.
This article explains what an API gateway is, outlines its required high‑performance, high‑availability, and extensibility characteristics, details core functions such as routing, load balancing, authentication, rate limiting, and compares popular solutions like Spring Cloud Gateway, Zuul, OpenResty, and Kong.
This article explains what microservices are, outlines essential design principles, and details the most important microservices design patterns—including Aggregator, API Gateway, Chain of Responsibility, Asynchronous Messaging, Shared Database, Event Sourcing, Branch, CQRS, Circuit Breaker, and Decomposition—to help developers build robust, scalable applications.
