API Gateway Explained Quickly

Learn the fundamentals of API Gateway.
Understand how API gateways simplify the process of exposing APIs to external consumers.
00:00 What is an API?
00:30 What is an API gateway?
00:50 Main features of API gateway
02:50 Benefits of API gateway
03:23 API gateway & microservices
Here are some examples of API Gateways:
- Google's Apigee API Management,
- AWS API Gateway,
- Azure API Gateway,
- Kong API Gateway.

[@ManiBalajiC]

Good one

[@s8x.]

isn’t it the same as using a url endpoint?

[@MagnumCarta]

An API gateway is to centralize your access to an underlying API that might be running on multiple machines. This is useful for things like traffic management (because you're able to monitor all incoming traffic through one main gateway) and security rules (because your gateway can handle authentication). A URL endpoint could be exposed through numerous means whereas an API gateway architecture is about ensuring monitoring of every API request through the service(s). I hope that makes sense.