API gateways play a crucial role in the security infrastructure of modern web and cloud-based applications.

If a request count exceeds the allocated amount at that time, the gateway can block API calls. With rate limiting, we can limit the concurrent access allowed for a given service.

Leaders must continuously adapt and fine-tune the mediation layer to their evolving API usage, ensuring it enhances system reliability, efficiency and security.

API gateways are an important component of API security, but for a comprehensive solution, other tools are needed.

Sniffed API calls: API traffic may be sniffed through a man-in-the-middle approach, uncovering API keys or unsecured APIs. Access control: Who is accessing your APIs and what access do they have?

At some point, you may be asked to perform a migration from a monolith to microservices-oriented architecture. One strategy to do this is to use an API gateway. Follow this example to learn how.

Gravitee's Federated API Management solution provides unified governance across 3rd party API Gateway providers. Learn more about it here.

Why smart teams will both phase in the new Kubernetes Gateway API and continue to plan around Ingress controller improvement.

Five years ago, Kong Inc. developed an open-source and cloud-native API gateway that quickly became the most adopted API gateway available, able to be easily procured on the Amazon Web Services ...