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API Gateway or Management Layer

Author: Natalia Venditto

Date First Published: Wed Jan 04 2023

API Gateway or Management Layer

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Services typically sit between clients and servers, or the data plane. We already discussed the importance of APIs in an API-First model in the architecture sections. How do we manage APIs, routes, traffic and security?

Working with multiple APIs and backend origins, may require we implement a management layer, to abstract away the complexity and consolidate the points of entry and security configurations as well as to balance traffic.