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API Gateway & Reverse Proxy (Nginx + Spring Cloud Gateway) · Lesson

Introducing API Gateways

Understand the purpose and advantages of API Gateways in microservice architectures, including common use cases and features.

Welcome to API Gateways!

An API Gateway is the smart front door to your backend — essential once you split an app into many microservices.

The Microservices Challenge

With many microservices, each has its own address and auth, and a client may need several calls per task. That sprawl gets messy fast — and a gateway tames it.

All lessons in this course

  1. What is a Proxy Server?
  2. Reverse Proxy Fundamentals
  3. Introducing API Gateways
  4. Forward vs Reverse Proxy: Choosing the Right Tool
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