Notes_on_API_Gateway
- An API gateway is a server that acts as a “front-end” for an API.
- API gateway receives requests, enforces policies and forwards appropriate requests to the service.
- API gateway can provide functionality to support:
- Authentication
- Authorisation
- Security
- Audit
- Regularity compliance.
- API gateway helps insulate the client from the implementation details, deal with versioning and reduce the number of requests / round-trips by aggregating queries.
- Service/API Management