
The Journey of an HTTP request to the Backend | Backend Engineering Show
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
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The Apiar Gateway, Is the Front Facing Reverse Proxy?
The API gateway is the front facing reverse proxy. It's a layer seven reverse proxis. So i it sees the request, it's decripting and ses your entire request. And this checks as it takes a finite amount of time in the api gat wy. The ab gateway will say, wait a minute. Let's let's see if you're actually authorized to make this request to begin with. You ri padres will check the nature of the request. Now we have agt request. Apiar gate we got a request says, ok, you may proceed. That was one single click. All this time you were doing that stuff. But simplyfi lest
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