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Covers the pros and cons of the API Gateway pattern, setting up a Zuul proxy with Eureka service discovery, configuring URL routing and prefixes, restricting exposed services, and using Zuul filters to handle cross-cutting concerns like forwarding authentication headers to downstream services. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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