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Advantages and disadvantages of using API gateway

Everything a gateway does well comes from the same fact: all traffic goes through one place. Everything that goes wrong with a gateway comes from that fact too.

Advantages

1. Improved performance. The gateway can cache responses, rate limit requests, and optimize communication between clients and backends, which lowers latency for end users.

2. Simplified system design. One entry point for all API requests makes the APIs easier to manage, monitor and maintain across many backend services, which simplifies development and deployment.

**3. Enhanced security

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Rupesh Ramachandran

Rupesh Ramachandran

· 5 months ago

What are the other options available considering that API Gateway is a single point of failure? What are some of the failure modes other than disasters?