When APIs Go Wrong: The Overambitious API Gateway

4 years ago dzone.com

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After some years working in the API space and event-driven architecture, I have found organizations struggling with APIs, API gateways, and with API management in general. In the previous blog of this series, Forgetting the “I” stands for “Interface” and not “Implementation”, I shared the pitfalls of merging the concept of API implementation with the contract, limiting the flexibility offered by the API decoupling.

With the shift of application deployments to microservices and the cloud, the use of API gateways just become more specialized as they now need to run in a distributed environment and be really performant.

The API gateway is not an ESB, and trying to use it as one will probably result in another episode of when APIs go wrong.

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