Microservice architecture (MSA), due to its sheer power and distinct competencies continuously strengthens its beneficial footprint as the undisputed unit of agile application design, development, and deployment. MSA is evolving quickly with the continued contributions from scores of third-party tool and platform vendors. Computer scientists, IT professionals, and academic professors across the globe are bringing forth delectable advancements to make MSA groundbreaking and pervasive for the IT world. We have detailed this strategically sound application architecture pattern in other chapters. You can also find other chapters talking about the various contributions of MSA to be penetrative, participative, and pioneering. In the following sections, we want to discuss the need for API gateway solutions and API management suites, and how they fulfill the goals of MSA goals with ease.
In a nutshell, an API Gateway is a proxy that has information about the main microservice...