API Gateway

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Introduction
An API Gateway is a server that is the single entry point into the system. It is similar to the Facade pattern from object-oriented design. The API Gateway encapsulates the internal system architecture and provides an API that is tailored to each client. It might have other responsibilities such as authentication, monitoring, load balancing, caching, request shaping and management, and static response handling. The following diagram shows how an API Gateway typically fits into the architecture (source: https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-gateway-in-microservice).