Grokking Microservices Design Patterns

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Advantages of API Gateway Pattern

Imagine a city with lots of different services and places to visit. If you are a tourist and you have to interact with each service individually, it can get confusing and overwhelming very quickly. But, if there is a single information center that guides you and helps you interact with all these services, your life becomes a whole lot easier. That’s what the API Gateway does in the world of microservices.

The API Gateway Pattern really is a powerhouse when it comes to organizing and simplifying interactions in a microservices architecture. Here are a few problems that it helps to solve:

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Abdul Ahad

· a year ago

  • A client sending an HTTP request with JSON data can have it translated by the API gateway to a gRPC request understood by the backend service. 
  • A backend service returning data in XML format can have it translated by the API gateway to JSON before sending it back to the client.