One Gateway That Controls Traffic, Security, and Routing for All Your APIs
As your architecture grows beyond a single service, every API needs authentication, rate limiting, logging, and routing. An API gateway centralizes these concerns so your services focus on business logic, not infrastructure plumbing.
of cyberattacks target small businesses, and an API gateway provides the centralized security layer that prevents attacks from reaching individual services
Verizon DBIR, 2023
API Gateway Setup
What's Included
Everything you get with our API Gateway Setup
Gateway Configuration and Deployment
AWS API Gateway, Kong, or Traefik configured with routing rules, SSL termination, CORS policies, and request/response transformation
Rate Limiting and Authentication
Per-client rate limiting, API key management, JWT validation, and OAuth 2.0 enforcement at the gateway level before requests reach your services
Observability and Traffic Management
Request logging, latency tracking, error rate monitoring, and traffic routing with canary deployments and A/B testing capabilities
Our API Gateway Setup Process
Architecture Assessment and Gateway Selection
We evaluate your current architecture, traffic volume, deployment platform, and requirements to recommend the right gateway: AWS API Gateway, Kong, Traefik, or a custom solution. We design the routing rules, security policies, and traffic management configuration.
Gateway Deployment and Configuration
We deploy the gateway, configure routing to all your services, set up SSL termination, CORS policies, and request/response transformations. The gateway is deployed as infrastructure-as-code for reproducibility.
Security and Rate Limiting
We configure API key management, JWT validation, OAuth 2.0 enforcement, and per-client rate limiting. We test authentication flows end-to-end and verify that unauthenticated requests are blocked at the gateway.
Monitoring, Logging, and Traffic Testing
We set up request logging, latency dashboards, error rate alerting, and traffic analysis. We load-test the gateway under realistic conditions and configure auto-scaling to handle traffic spikes.
Key Benefits
Centralized security enforcement
Authentication, rate limiting, and input validation are enforced at the gateway before requests reach your services. A single security update at the gateway layer protects every service behind it, eliminating the risk of inconsistent security across services.
Independent service deployments
Traffic routing at the gateway level means you can deploy, scale, and update individual services without affecting others. Canary deployments route a percentage of traffic to new versions for testing. Blue-green deployments enable instant rollback.
Complete API observability
Every request passing through the gateway is logged with timing, status, and client information. You get real-time visibility into traffic patterns, error rates, and latency across all services from a single dashboard.
Research & Evidence
Backed by industry research and proven results
Data Breach Investigations Report
43% of cyberattacks target small businesses, and API gateways provide centralized defense with rate limiting, authentication, and threat detection that individual services cannot implement consistently
Verizon (2023)
State of DevOps Report
Elite DevOps teams deploy 973x more frequently, and API gateways enable independent service deployments with traffic routing that makes zero-downtime deploys possible
DORA (2022)
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