2020-07-06T10:41:00Z

What are the benefits and drawbacks of using an API gateway when building microservices?

What are some of the considerations to keep in mind if one chooses to use API gateways in conjunction with microservice architecture?

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2020-07-10T00:23:39Z
Jul 10, 2020

Benefits: unified management and control of all APIs.


Drawbacks: additional delay, overlapped functionality with other gateway components such as istio/envoy.  

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