API Gateway vs Service Mesh
Developers should learn API Gateway patterns when building or maintaining microservices-based systems to decouple clients from service implementations and enforce consistent policies across APIs meets developers should learn and use service meshes when building or operating complex microservices-based applications that require reliable inter-service communication, security enforcement, and monitoring at scale. Here's our take.
API Gateway
Developers should learn API Gateway patterns when building or maintaining microservices-based systems to decouple clients from service implementations and enforce consistent policies across APIs
API Gateway
Nice PickDevelopers should learn API Gateway patterns when building or maintaining microservices-based systems to decouple clients from service implementations and enforce consistent policies across APIs
Pros
- +It's particularly useful for handling authentication/authorization, load balancing, request aggregation, and API versioning in distributed environments
- +Related to: microservices, rest-api
Cons
- -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case
Service Mesh
Developers should learn and use service meshes when building or operating complex microservices-based applications that require reliable inter-service communication, security enforcement, and monitoring at scale
Pros
- +It is particularly valuable in cloud-native environments with Kubernetes, where it simplifies implementing cross-cutting concerns like mutual TLS, circuit breaking, load balancing, and distributed tracing across hundreds or thousands of services
- +Related to: kubernetes, microservices
Cons
- -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case
The Verdict
Use API Gateway if: You want it's particularly useful for handling authentication/authorization, load balancing, request aggregation, and api versioning in distributed environments and can live with specific tradeoffs depend on your use case.
Use Service Mesh if: You prioritize it is particularly valuable in cloud-native environments with kubernetes, where it simplifies implementing cross-cutting concerns like mutual tls, circuit breaking, load balancing, and distributed tracing across hundreds or thousands of services over what API Gateway offers.
Developers should learn API Gateway patterns when building or maintaining microservices-based systems to decouple clients from service implementations and enforce consistent policies across APIs
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