Principles of an API Gateway

1 · PayPal · Dec. 4, 2018, 10:58 p.m.
Photo by Jota Lao on UnsplashAn API Gateway is the entry point to access various capabilities of a complex platform via well-defined APIs. To illustrate this concept, lets say you build a website for an electronics store, and design an API /electronics for its homepage. This API, hosted on a single service, returns the list of electronics in the store plus recommended items. Now imagine the store grows over time and you decide to build specific services for consumer-durables and mobile-phones. A...