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API Gateway
Quick Definition
Server managing API traffic between clients and services
Full Definition
A server managing API traffic between clients and backend services.
Examples
rate limiting, authentication, request routing, load balancing
Related Terms
microservices
rest-api
authentication
More Backend Terms
Saga Pattern
Pattern managing distributed transactions with compensating actions
Load Balancing
Distributing traffic across multiple backend servers
Dead Letter Queue
Queue for messages that fail processing after retries
WebSocket
Protocol for full-duplex real-time communication over TCP
Circuit Breaker
Pattern preventing cascading failures by halting failing requests
Apache Kafka
Distributed event streaming platform for high-throughput data