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Acknowledge about API Gateway design

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Acknowledge about API Gateway design

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What does API gateway do? The diagram below shows the detail. What does API Gateway do? —Bbleg.bytebytego.com Ty ceo oe ow Parameter Cro oa io Coen ° Error Handi er eas Step 1 - The client sends an HTTP request to the API gateway. Step 2 - The API gateway parses and validates the attributes in the HTTP request. Step 3 - The API gateway performs allow-list/deny-list checks. Step 4 - The API gateway talks to an identity provider for authentication and authorization. Step 5 - The rate limiting rules are applied to the request. If itis over the limit, the request is rejected. Steps 6 and 7 - Now that the request has passed basic checks, the API gateway finds the relevant service to route to by path matching. ‘Step 8 - The API gateway transforms the request into the appropriate protocol and sends it to backend microservices. Steps 9-12: The API gateway can handle errors properly, and deals with faults if the error takes a longer time to recover (circuit break). It can also leverage ELK (Elastic-Logstash-Kibana) stack for logging and monitoring. We sometimes cache data in the API gateway. Over to you: 1. What's the difference between a load balancer and an API gateway? 2. Dowe need to use different API gateways for PC, mobile and browser separately?

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