If you’ve been working with APIs for the past few years, then you’ve likely heard of GraphQL. But, what is it exactly? A language? An API model? Do I use…
An API gateway is a reverse proxy that allows your organization to offer APIs as a product to internal and external clients via a centralized ingress point. An example of…
API gateway authentication is an important way to control the data that is allowed to be transmitted using your APIs. What is an API Gateway? In essence, it authenticates that…
Organizations are increasingly adopting microservices for the architecture’s inherent flexibility and scalability, but to fully realize the benefits of a microservices approach, you need an API gateway. A microservice-based system…
An API gateway is a software application between a client and a set of backend microservices. The API Gateway serves as a reverse proxy to accept API calls from the…
As with all content accessed over the internet, APIs and API gateways are vulnerable to myriad threats if not properly secured. Without appropriate authentication and authorization in place, your application…
APIs are pivotal in the information economy, enabling millions of applications to communicate with one another seamlessly. Thus came the need for the API gateway, middleware that mediates requests between…
If you’re involved in API design these days it can feel like someone is proclaiming the benefits of RESTful API design everywhere you turn. However, that advice often comes without…
While an API gateway provides a single point of access for your application’s APIs, that doesn’t mean it should be a single point of failure. Just as the microservices that…
Created by computer scientist Roy Fielding, REST is an acronym for REpresentational State Transfer. And a REST API (aka RESTful API) is an application programming interface (API) that conforms to…
Your API gateway sits in front of all your upstream services. As an incoming request’s first point of contact, the API gateway dictates whether and how a request should be…
Speed to market and innovation are the keys to any organization’s success. They grant a competitive edge, with the opportunity to reach more customers and hit higher profit margins. While…
Service Oriented Architecture, or SOA, is a way of designing software so that individual services are able to communicate with each other over a network using a communication protocol. Each…
In microservices architectures, an API gateway provides an entry point to your system that hides the network of services beneath it Microservices work by splitting applications into task-specific services that…
