API gateway is an architectural pattern of a service that sits between a client and the internal backend services. It's used to implement centralized solutions for authenticating requests, rate limiting, collecting statistics, and limiting public access to a single point of entry. The authentication logic doesn't have to be duplicated around different services and can remain only in the API gateway.

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