How API Gateways Do the Heavy Lifting
from The API Podcast with Fexingo: REST, GraphQL, and Modern Web APIs Hosted by Fexingo
Episode 170 of The API Podcast: Lucas and Luna dig into the API gateway pattern and the concrete problems it solves. Using examples like a food-ordering service and a bank's payment API, they explain how a single gateway layer handles authentication, rate limiting, request routing, and response transformation. They also unpack the subtle risks: centralizing logic can create a bottleneck, and misconfigured timeouts can take down a service. No hype, just the trade-offs you need to know before you put a gateway in front of your APIs. #APIGateway #APIdesign #Microservices #TechInfrastructure #WebDevelopment #BackendEngineering #TechPodcast #APISecurity #RateLimiting #Authentication #ServiceMesh #DevOps #CloudComputing #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #Technology #SoftwareEngineering #APIManagement Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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