API Gateways Insights

What is API Gateways?

An API Gateway is a server that acts as a single entry point for clients to access multiple backend services or microservices. It handles tasks such as routing requests, authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and request transformation. API gateways decouple the client applications from the backend service architecture, allowing backend services to evolve independently without affecting client applications. They are commonly used to improve security, performance, and manageability of APIs.

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What other technologies are related to API Gateways?

API Gateways Competitor Technologies

Service Mesh

Service meshes provide similar functionality to API Gateways, such as traffic management, security, and observability, but operate at a different layer (service-to-service communication).

mentioned alongside API Gateways in 8% (523) of relevant job posts

Kong

Kong is a popular open-source API Gateway that provides similar functionality, such as request routing, authentication, and rate limiting.

mentioned alongside API Gateways in 4% (272) of relevant job posts

ESBs

ESBs provide similar functionality to API Gateways, such as message routing and transformation, but are typically used in more complex integration scenarios.

mentioned alongside API Gateways in 12% (83) of relevant job posts

service meshes

Service meshes provide similar functionality to API Gateways, such as traffic management, security, and observability, but operate at a different layer (service-to-service communication).

mentioned alongside API Gateways in 14% (68) of relevant job posts