Gateway vs. Traditional Microservices

In a microservices architecture, your application is broken down into many smaller, independent services. Each service performs a specific function.

But how do clients, like a web browser or a mobile app, interact with all these different services?

Initially, clients might directly call each microservice they need.

Imagine your mobile app needing to fetch user data from a "User Service," order history from an "Order Service," and product details from a "Product Service."

This approach, while simple at first glance, quickly introduces challenges.