Api Gateway

GraphQL is a powerful query language for APIs that allows developers to define the structure of the data they need from the server, and the server responds with only that data. This makes it much more efficient and flexible than traditional REST APIs, which often require multiple requests to retrieve…

Did you know Fast-Gateway? a super fast, framework agnostic Node.js API Gateway designed to serve the masses! With support for Docker images, AWS Lambda proxying, and WebSocket proxying, Fast-Gateway brings the power of high-performance and extensible API Gateway to your projects. 🚀 Features Framework agnostic: Use it with Restana, Express.js, …

Note, this article does not go into detail on how to create cognito user pools. It assumes that you already have an API Gateway and multiple cognito user pools and you just want to know how to use them together. The AWS docs note: As an alternative to using IAM…

With the rise of microservices and cloud-based applications, APIs have become a critical component of modern software development. APIs allow developers to build complex applications by integrating various services and components. In a DevSecOps environment, API Gateway is a critical component that helps to achieve the core principles of DevSecOps…

This article explores Kong API Gateway’s support for load balancing, upstreams, and targets, as well as its active and passive health check capabilities. …

Most inter-systems communication components that use REST serialize their payload in JSON. As of now, JSON lacks a widely-used schema validation standard: JSON Schema is not widespread. Standard schema validation allows delegating the validation to a third-party library and being done with it. Without one, we must fall back to…

Lambda proxy integration is a lightweight, flexible API Gateway API integration type that allows you to integrate an API method — or an entire API — with a Lambda function. The Lambda function can be written in any language that Lambda supports. …

— co-authored with GPT-4 In today’s digital landscape, businesses are increasingly adopting microservices architecture to scale their applications and improve flexibility. This architectural style breaks down monolithic applications into small, independently deployable, and scalable services that communicate with each other to form a cohesive system. However, one of the challenges…

Before starting this interesting story, let’s take a quick look at what we had before and what it cost. We have a system that makes calculations based on certain actions to understand and interpret user behaviors. To make this happen, we need to send user actions through our Web SDK. …