API Gateway — Roadmap Step & Resources
A single entry point for routing, authentication and rate limiting across services
- Level: advanced
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: System Design
Before this step
Interview questions
- What responsibilities typically live in an API Gateway?
Study resources
- Pattern: API Gateway (Article) — Chris Richardson's canonical microservices.io pattern catalog entry for API Gateway.
- What is an API Gateway? (Video) — A practical explanation of what an API Gateway does and why microservices need one.
- Amazon API Gateway Developer Guide (Article) — The official Amazon API Gateway documentation.
- Amazon API Gateway Explained (Video) — Covers exposing Lambda functions as managed REST or HTTP APIs.
- API Gateway Documentation (Article) — Google Cloud's own official API Gateway documentation.
- AWS Skill Builder (Article) — AWS's own official, free digital training platform with hands-on labs and courses for this exact topic area.
- Google Cloud Skills Boost (Article) — Google Cloud's own official, free training platform with hands-on labs for this exact topic area.
Part of
- Architectural Patterns — section
- System Design roadmap — the full learning path