API gateway design patterns for cloud computing: The Ultimate Guide to Orchestrating APIs, Securing Microservices, and Powering Scalable Cloud System by SIMON TELLIER
English | May 6, 2025 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0F7RYMTBH | 339 pages | EPUB | 0.32 Mb
English | May 6, 2025 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0F7RYMTBH | 339 pages | EPUB | 0.32 Mb
What if the success of your cloud application depends on a single architectural decision you're overlooking? Are you truly leveraging your API Gateway to its full potential — or just scratching the surface?
In today's cloud-first world, API Gateways aren’t optional — they’re mission-critical. Whether you're scaling a microservices architecture, securing your endpoints, or optimizing traffic flows across AWS, Azure, GCP, or Kubernetes, one thing is clear: how you design and deploy your API gateway can make or break your system.
API Gateway Design Patterns for Cloud Computing is your essential, real-world guide to building bulletproof API layers in modern cloud environments. Written by Simon Tellier, a seasoned cloud architect, this book cuts through the noise and gives you battle-tested, pattern-driven strategies you won’t find in typical documentation.🔑 What You’ll Learn Inside:
- 25+ proven API Gateway design patterns for high-availability, security, and scalability
- How to architect multi-cloud and hybrid gateway solutions with AWS, Azure, GCP, and open-source tools like Kong, NGINX, and Traefik
- Implementation-ready Terraform, GitHub Actions, and Kubernetes gateway configs
- Best practices for OAuth2, mTLS, rate limiting, and zero-trust architecture
- Strategies for handling versioning, routing, observability, CI/CD, and edge termination
- Real-world use cases like mobile backend-for-frontends (BFF), SaaS tenant isolation, and chaos-resilient APIs
- Vendor-agnostic approach that compares cloud-native and open-source tools side-by-side
- Clear, code-first explanations that go beyond theory and get you building fast
- Perfect for cloud architects, DevOps teams, platform engineers, and backend developers

