How API Gateways Centralize Authentication and Rate Limiting

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How API Gateways Centralize Authentication and Rate Limiting

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Lucas and Luna dive into the API gateway pattern—a reverse proxy that sits in front of microservices to handle authentication, rate limiting, request routing, and analytics. They discuss how companies like Netflix and Shopify use gateways to offload cross-cutting concerns, enforce policies without touching individual services, and simplify client-side code. Lucas explains the difference between a gateway, a load balancer, and a service mesh, and why a gateway can become a bottleneck if not designed for high availability. Luna brings up the trade-off between convenience and added latency, and they explore real-world examples like Kong, AWS API Gateway, and Envoy. The episode includes a brief, organic listener-support moment and ends with thoughts on how gateways are evolving with GraphQL federation and edge computing. #API #APIGateway #Microservices #RateLimiting #Authentication #Netflix #Shopify #Kong #AWS #Envoy #GraphQL #EdgeComputing #ReverseProxy #ServiceMesh #Technology #WebDevelopment #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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