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API Gateway Pattern

A single edge service that routes client requests to backend services and centralizes cross-cutting concerns: authentication, rate limiting, TLS termination, request aggregation. It keeps clients ignorant of internal topology, but is itself a scaling and deployment chokepoint to manage.

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A single edge service that routes client requests to backend services and centralizes cross-cutting concerns: authentication, rate limiting, TLS termination, request aggregation. It keeps clients ignorant of internal topology, but is itself a scaling and deployment chokepoint to manage.

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