Phase 22 · Build Backend Portfolio Projects
ProjectsAPI Gateway for Microservices
Part of the Backend Developer Roadmap.
Summary
A gateway service routing requests to two or more of your other backend projects — practice for the API gateway pattern in a real, working system.
How to Learn This
- 1Route requests to at least two different backend services based on path.
- 2Centralize authentication at the gateway so individual services can trust its verification.
- 3Add request logging and basic rate limiting at the gateway level.
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