As your application grows, handling authentication, rate limiting, and routing directly inside your core application logic becomes an absolute nightmare. That is exactly why you need an API Gateway.
Think of it as the digital traffic cop or the front door of your architecture. Instead of clients hitting multiple services directly, they hit the gateway. It handles the heavy lifting: verifying tokens, blocking malicious traffic, and routing requests smoothly.
Do you prefer lightweight open-source tools like Kong, or do you rely entirely on cloud-native solutions like AWS? Why?
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