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Feb 20, 2019 · Backend Development

Understanding API Gateways: Roles, Implementation, and a Node.js Example

This article explains what API gateways are, why they are essential in micro‑service architectures, outlines the cross‑cutting concerns they address such as authentication, transport security, load balancing, request routing, dependency resolution and data transformation, and provides a practical Node.js implementation with code samples.