Dynamic Application Gateway: Creating A Single Tier for Application Ingress and Egress .indented { padding-left: 50pt; padding-right: 50pt; font-style: italic; } Most of the talk we hear about new architectures for application environments focuses on breaking monolithic applications into smaller, discrete services that make up a distributed application – an approach often referred to as microservices. A parallel architectural shift is underway, and while it’s not enjoying the same hype as microservices, I predict it will be just as significant. I’m referring to the collapse of the tiers that handle ingress and egress traffic for applications into a single, cloud‑agnostic software layer. As my colleague, Owen Garrett, discussed in a recent blog post, typical ingress‑egress traffic pipelines are complex. It’s not uncommon to see five separate tiers – one each for reverse proxy, web application firewall (WAF), web cache, API gateway, and [ more… ]