An API Gateway provides a single and unified API entry point across one or more internal APIs. It mediates, routes, and invokes a respective endpoint after request verification, content filtering, authentication, and authorization.
One of the most common tasks in software development is to define specific environments and manage them to develop, test, promote and deploy code. This is essential to use different values for various resources such as API’s or databases in different environments. For e.g. you may use a low powered SQL Lite instance for local development but use a large instance in staging and production. Similarly, you may use a local instance of an API in development and a different instance in production. Generally, frameworks provide environment management patterns to enable switching resources based on the environment. ...