API Gateway

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An API Gateway is a server that acts as an intermediary between clients and backend services, managing and routing API requests. It serves as a single entry point for all client interactions, handling tasks such as request routing, composition, and protocol translation. API Gateways can also provide additional functionalities like authentication, rate limiting, caching, and load balancing, enhancing the security, performance, and reliability of the services. By centralizing these concerns, an API Gateway simplifies the client architecture and allows backend services to evolve independently, ensuring a more scalable and maintainable system.

HARP Proxy is designed primarily as a Forward Proxy, which essentially serves the opposite function of an API Gateway. However, with a few minor configuration adjustments, it can also be utilized as an API Gateway.