Microservices In Practice: Developing Instagram Clone —Gateway Service

This is part 8 of Developing Instagram Clone series, other parts are linked below

1. Developing Instagram Clone: Introduction.
2. Developing Instagram Clone: Discovery Service.
3. Developing Instagram Clone: Auth Service.
4. Developing Instagram Clone: Media Service.
5. Developing Instagram Clone: Post Service.
6. Developing Instagram Clone: Graph Service.
7. Developing Instagram Clone: Newsfeed Service.
8. Developing Instagram Clone: Gateway Service.
9. Developing Instagram Clone: Front-end Service

In Microservices architecture the system is split into multiple services, these services shouldn’t be visible to the consumer (the front-end in our case).

You should provide a unified interface to the consumers, this unified interface is the gateway service.

API Gateway Benefits

• Serves as a single point of entry: An API gateway is a single point-of-entry (or “gateway”) for the group of Microservices that sit behind it.
• Authentication and authorization: An API gateway makes sure that the client has the rights to…