API Gateway
Control, Secure, Optimize: All in One Place
Authentication & Authorization
Authenticating the identity of API consumers and authorizing to access services based on roles or permissions.
Rate Limiting
Control the number of API calls an entity can make within a given timeframe, preventing abuse and ensuring fair usage.
Load Balancing
Distribute incoming API requests across multiple servers, ensuring high availability and reliability.
Analytics and Monitoring
Come with native analytics dashboards and monitoring tools that help you keep track of API usage, error rates, and overall performance.
Why Use an API Gateway?
So why should you consider implementing an API Gateway? Here are some compelling reasons:
Centralized Management
Having an API Gateway enables centralized control over multiple APIs. This means you can manage all your API configurations, policies, and analytics from a single dashboard.
Scalability
As your application grows, so will the number of API calls and services. An API Gateway is designed to handle this growth gracefully.
Security
API Gateways often offer advanced security features like OAuth, JWT, API keys, and SSL termination at a single point, making it easier to secure your APIs.
The API Gateway offers robust capabilities for request and response manipulation, enabling users to dynamically transform data to suit their needs. This includes filtering, grouping, renaming, or injecting specific fields, as well as aggregating data from multiple sources into a unified response. Its ability to convert data formats, such as XML to JSON, ensures compatibility across diverse systems.
In addition, the gateway excels in security, featuring mechanisms like zero-trust policies, protection against threats such as cross-site scripting (XSS) and clickjacking, and support for various authentication methods including OAuth2, JWT, and mTLS. For organizations requiring performance and scalability, the gateway is designed to handle high throughput with minimal resource consumption, managing over 80,000 requests per second on standard hardware while maintaining a low memory footprint.