Benefits
● Reverse proxy, Routing, Aggregation
● Abstraction Backend services
● Reduces chattiness network traffic
● Implements Cross-cutting concerns
Drawbacks
● Single API Gateway = single-point-of-failure
risk
● Business complexity in API Gateway
● If not scale out, API Gateway can become a
bottleneck on network traffic
https://medium.com/@jagadish.bidarkoti/api-gateway-evaluation-1ef935332626