--- title: Quesma database gateway | daily.dev description: Quesma proposes applying microservice principles to the database layer by introducing a database gateway — an architectural component analogous to an API... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/quesma-database-gateway-mqqwjhnu1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Quesma database gateway | daily.dev og:description: Quesma proposes applying microservice principles to the database layer by introducing a database gateway — an architectural component analogous to an API... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/quesma-database-gateway-mqqwjhnu1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/MqQWJhnU1.png og:image:alt: Quesma database 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. # Quesma database gateway **[Quesma](https://daily.dev/sources/quesma)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Quesma proposes applying microservice principles to the database layer by introducing a database gateway — an architectural component analogous to an API gateway. Just as API gateways enabled microservices to evolve independently, a database gateway could sit in front of databases to provide protocol translation, blue-green deployments, load balancing, authentication, observability, and query optimization. This would make database migrations safer and more iterative, treating databases as just another microservice in the stack. Quesma positions itself as building this open database gateway for the industry. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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