API Gateway

Leverage a fully managed API gateway to create a barrier at the boundaries of a cloud-native system by pushing cross-cutting concerns, such as security and caching, to the edge of the cloud where some load is absorbed before entering the interior of the system.

Context, problem, and forces

Cloud-native systems are composed of bounded isolated components, which are responsive, resilient, elastic, and message-driven. All inter-component communication is performed asynchronously via event streaming. Components publish events to downstream components and consume events from upstream components. We strive to limit synchronous communication to only the intra-component cloud-native databases and to the cloud...