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What are the benefits and drawbacks of using an API gateway when building microservices?

Rony_Sklar - PeerSpot reviewer
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What are some of the considerations to keep in mind if one chooses to use API gateways in conjunction with microservice architecture?

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Xinxiao Li - PeerSpot reviewer
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Benefits: unified management and control of all APIs.


Drawbacks: additional delay, overlapped functionality with other gateway components such as istio/envoy.  

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2020-07-10T00:23:39Z
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