advancedContainerized System Design: Microservices, API Gateway, Event-Driven & Deployment Architectures
Why does putting an API Gateway in front of internal microservices matter for security, not just routing?
Internal services sit behind the Gateway and are never directly internet-reachable — a compromised or misconfigured internal service is one full network hop further from being publicly exploitable than if every service were independently exposed.
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