API Gateways and Load Balancers play critical roles in modern application infrastructure, but they serve very different purposes. In this video, we’ll explore how an API Gateway manages API requests, providing routing, authentication, and rate-limiting, while a Load Balancer focuses on distributing traffic efficiently across servers to ensure high availability and performance. By the end, you’ll understand their unique roles and when to use each in your architecture.
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API Gateways and Load Balancers are essential components of modern application infrastructure, serving distinct functions. While an API Gateway manages API requests, including routing, authentication, and rate-limiting, a Load Balancer ensures efficient traffic distribution across servers for high availability and performance. Understand when to use each tool for optimal architecture design.

API gateway vs Load Balancer

Hi family, Emmanuel from Liberia, a beginner in mobile Apps Development, glad to be here

I want to be able to set up all these things
I want to be very awesome in both frontend and backend, especially backend

Thank you <a href="https://app.daily.dev/fullstackproject" data-mention-id="NQ2FidKCF0WecGX9u5tSR" data-mention-username="fullstackproject" translate="no">@fullstackproject</a>. The video was helpful.
Funny enough, I also battled with fully grasping the difference between these two.
In short — API Gateways handle request management at the application level, while Load Balancers work at the network level to distribute traffic efficiently. 🥂

I watched your video, its a great explanation!!