API Gateways
The Phantom of the API Gateway
Routing, Rate Limiting, and the Opera of Ingress
The chandelier fell shortly after someone disabled rate limiting for a partner integration.
Beneath the public façade of the application lurks a gateway with strong opinions about routing, quotas, headers, and identity. This volume offers a sober tour of ingress patterns, request transformation, circuit breaking, and the many tragedies caused by exposing an internal service because it had a pleasant voice.
Contents
- Box Five and the Public Endpoint
- The Masked Header of Identity
- Ariettas in Authentication and Authorisation
- When the Circuit Breaker Drops the Chandelier
Published by Austenpunk, the distinguished imprint for engineers who believe that every production incident would be improved by a stronger sense of narrative irony.
This essential volume combines literary feeling, technical anxiety, and just enough documentation to suggest that somebody once understood the system.
