How to protect your APIs using Cloud Endpoints on your deployments
Cloud Endpoints is an API management system offered by Google Cloud for the protection, monitoring, analysis, and control of quotas on our services, using the same service as Google does for its own services.
Cloud Endpoints works through an Extensible Service Provider (ESP) to deliver API management functionalities to your services.
Depending on the communication protocol that your service uses and where it is hosted, there are three Cloud Endpoints options:
- Cloud Endpoints for OpenAPI: A Cloud Endpoints solution that works with the OpenAPI API description specification.
- Cloud Endpoints for gRPC: A Cloud Endpoints solution that works with the open source RPC framework developed by Google for high-performance connections, allowing calls between methods of different servers as if they were local objects, facilitating the development of distributed applications.
- Cloud Endpoints Frameworks: A specific...