Before the advent of APIs, applications were mainly built using the monolith approach where all software components were interconnected. But as enterprise-level systems adopt microservices and APIs, multiple issues like security and load balancing arise.
These issues can be solved by introducing an API Gateway which is an intermediate level between a client and an API. This article dives deep into discussing what an API gateway is and why it is essential in a cloud-native era.
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