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Microservices Design Patterns in .NET - Second Edition
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While API gateways significantly simplify communication and enhance system resilience, careful planning and informed architectural choices are critical. Awareness of the pros and cons enables architects to proactively address potential pitfalls, achieving the optimal balance of efficiency, scalability, and maintainability within their microservices architectures.
It is worth distinguishing between an API gateway and a service mesh. An API gateway is primarily concerned with managing external client access to a microservices system. It sits at the edge of the application, handling concerns such as routing, authentication, rate limiting, response aggregation, and protocol translation as requests enter from outside the system. In contrast, a service mesh is designed to manage internal communication between services. It operates within the mesh of microservices, handling low-level concerns such as service discovery, load balancing, observability, mTLS encryption...