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About the Book
API Gateways sit at the center of modern API infrastructure. They secure access, control traffic, manage transformations, and bridge legacy systems with new architectures. Whether you're building microservices, exposing APIs to partners, or modernizing a monolith, the API Gateway is where everything comes together.
This book is your practical guide to designing, configuring, and operating API Gateways effectively. It covers key concepts like security, traffic control, OpenAPI validation, and deployment patterns, and offers real-world examples using the open source Membrane API Gateway.
The content is vendor-neutral at its core, making it valuable no matter which API Gateway technology you use. From JWT validation to orchestration with lightweight scripting, you’ll learn how to build secure, maintainable, and scalable API infrastructure.
About the Authors
Thomas has been working as a consultant for APIs for over 20 years and is constantly learning new things by working with interesting companies and exciting problems. He is Managing Director at predic8 in Bonn and is involved in the development of Membrane, an open source API gateway with native support for OpenAPI. Thomas also shares his expertise on software architecture and APIs on predic8's YouTube channel. In his spare time, he enjoys learning new languages, photography and collecting tools.
