3 years ago

Category: Business, Data, android, ios

According to the definition by Gartner: “Microservice is a tightly scoped, strongly encapsulated, loosely coupled, independently deployable, and independently scalable application component.” The goal of the microservices is to sufficiently decompose/decouple the application into loosely coupled microservices/modules in contrast to monolithic applications where modules are highly coupled and deployed as a single big chunk.

In short, it behaves precisely as API management but it is important not to confuse API management with API Gateway.

API gateway with added features results in overambitious gateways that encourage designs that continue to be difficult to test and deploy.

Netflix API Gateway, Zuul 2 removed a lot of the business logic from Gateway that they had in Zuul to origin systems.