--- title: Breaking The Gateway | daily.dev description: API gateway is an architectural pattern of a service that sits between a client and the internal backend services. It's used to implement centralized... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/breaking-the-gateway-nhyex7oj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Breaking The Gateway | daily.dev og:description: API gateway is an architectural pattern of a service that sits between a client and the internal backend services. It's used to implement centralized... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/breaking-the-gateway-nhyex7oj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/nHYEX7oj-.png og:image:alt: Breaking The Gateway og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Breaking The Gateway **[daily.dev](https://daily.dev/sources/daily)** · 4 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary API gateway is an architectural pattern of a service that sits between a client and the internal backend services. It's used to implement centralized solutions for authenticating requests, rate limiting, collecting statistics, and limiting public access to a single point of entry. The authentication logic doesn't have to be duplicated around different services and can remain only in the API gateway. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@idoshamun** · 3 upvotes > Hey everyone! 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