What Is an API Gateway? A Beginner's Guide to API Management 🚀

Learn more about API Management → http://ibm.biz/guide-to-api-mgmt
Watch "Why API Management" lightboard video → https://youtu.be/DBZTNzrZC3E
Watch "Scaling Without an API Gateway" lightboard video → https://youtu.be/OAdOa31EH4o
Check out IBM API Connect → https://www.ibm.com/products/api-connect
Check out IBM DataPower Gateway → https://www.ibm.com/products/datapower-gateway

The rapid increase of online services has driven the development of increasingly complex web applications using a microservice based system that can consist of dozens or even hundreds of individual services communicating with each other via APIs.

So how do you manage this increase of API traffic if you intend to scale and add more functionality to your app?

In this lightboard video, Jason Goode with IBM, demonstrates how implementing an API Gateway solution can help you better manage complex application communication by using an example of an eCommerce storefront that gets a surge in web traffic.

Chapters
0:00 - Intro to APIs
0:24 - Monolith to microservices
0:41 - Direct client to microservice communication
1:17 - eCommerce Storefront example
2:17 - Product detail UI functions
3:14 - Implementing an API Gateway architecture
3:47 - Client performance
5:14 - Adding extra security layers
5:51 - Protocol translation
7:06 - Offloading common functionality
8:06 - Black Friday traffic spike example
8:21 - Implementing a Backends for frontends (BFF) architecture
9:36 - Summary

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