The monolith offers an endpoint for each data source, and a single aggregating endpoint for all of them. In the previous section, we developed a dedicated backend-for-frontend application. In this case, the gateway can be seen as a container where to deploy BFF plugins. I'll be using Apache APISIX to demo how to do it, but the idea can be replicated on other gateways as well.
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The use-caseSetting up the demoMigrating to microservicesDedicated backend-for-frontendBackend-for-frontend at the API Gateway levelBonus: a poor man's BFFConclusionSort: