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Deploying API Gateway as a proxy in front of a legacy API

Paul Swail on March 20, 2019

In the last update, I decided to put API Gateway in front of the classic ELB of the legacy app to enable me to gradually migrate routes away from...
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Kyle Galbraith

Another excellent read Paul! I am really enjoying following your journey through this process as I am beginning to ramp up into my own move. One question that came to mind with this proxy is whether or not you saw a substantial jump in latency for requests now that you have the proxy? That seems like something you might want to monitor as you start moving workloads over from the monolith.

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Paul Swail

Hey Kyle. Glad you're enjoying it.

Very good point about latency and one I should have covered in my last update. Yes, I have noticed some additional latency but I'm not overly concerned about it right now. I'm currently writing my next update so will give a bit more information there on how I'm monitoring it and hope to reduce it going forward.

Interesting that you're starting to make your own move! 👍