Do You Really Need Different Kinds of API Gateways? (Hint: No!)
Do You Really Need Different Kinds of API Gateways? (Hint: No!) div.indent { margin-left: 30px; } API gateways are the bedrock of API infrastructure. API gateways secure and mediate traffic between backend applications that expose their APIs and the consumers of the APIs. For example, API gateways can manage the API traffic generated by calls from a mobile application like Uber to a backend application like Google Maps. API gateway functionality includes authenticating API calls, routing requests to appropriate backends, applying rate limits to prevent overloading your systems, mitigating DDoS attacks, offloading SSL/TLS traffic to improve performance, and handling errors and exceptions. To generate new sources of revenue, enterprises are developing external APIs that third‑party developers can use to build applications. They are also exposing APIs to simplify business processes. And to support these new digital business models, enterprises need [ more… ]
