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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

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API Gateway handles various critical tasks such as routing requests to appropriate services, SSL termination for secure data transmission, rate limiting to prevent system overload, authentication to verify requests, load balancing to distribute traffic, transforming requests, monitoring API usage, and caching responses to improve performance.

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A centralized platform facilitating API management, offering security, monitoring, and orchestration capabilities. Readers can learn how to efficiently manage and secure APIs, ensuring seamless communication between software applications. Techniques for API gateway setup, security policies implementation, rate limiting, request/response transformations, and API monitoring and analytics can be explored.

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