API Gateway
Gateway patterns, routing, aggregation
- 00 API Gateway — Roadmap Build your own with nginx, Kong, or Envoy. Auth, rate limit, route, transform. beginner 5 min →
- 01 What Is an API Gateway The single entry point in front of your services — routing, auth, rate limiting, and transformation without touching your backends. beginner 11 min →
- 02 Routing & Load Balancing Path matching, header-based routing, weighted splits, and health-aware balancing — how the gateway decides where each request goes. beginner 13 min →
- 03 Auth at the Gateway JWT verification, API key validation, OAuth token introspection — handle identity once so your services don't have to. intermediate 14 min →
- 04 Rate Limiting at the Gateway Fixed window, sliding window, token bucket — protect your backends from abuse and enforce fair usage without touching service code. intermediate 13 min →
- 05 Request & Response Transformation Header manipulation, payload reshaping, protocol translation — adapting what clients send to what backends expect. intermediate 11 min →
- 06 Observability & Production Gateway Access logs, distributed tracing, circuit breakers, and the operational checklist before putting a gateway in front of real traffic. advanced 13 min →