api-gateway

name	api-gateway
description	API Gateway patterns (Kong, Traefik, AWS API Gateway) — rate limiting, auth, routing, versioning. Use when implementing API gateway, reverse proxy, or API management.
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API Gateway — Kong, Traefik, Patterns

API Gateway moderne pour routing, auth, rate limiting, observabilité.

Responsabilités

Fonction	Outils
Routing (path, header, canary)	Kong, Traefik, Nginx
Auth (JWT, OAuth2, API keys)	Kong plugins, Traefik middleware
Rate Limiting (per-user/IP)	Redis-backed counters
Load Balancing	HAProxy, Traefik
Circuit Breaker	Resilience4j, Istio

Stacks

Kong — Enterprise, plugins riches, K8s-native
Traefik — Cloud-native, auto-discovery
AWS API Gateway — Managed, serverless
Nginx — Performance max, self-hosted
Envoy — Service mesh (Istio), gRPC

Kong Config

services:
  - name: payment-api
    url: http://payment:8080
    routes: [{ paths: ["/api/payments"] }]
    plugins: [rate-limiting, jwt, prometheus]

Traefik Config

http:
  routers:
    payment:
      rule: "PathPrefix(`/api/payments`)"
      middlewares: [rate-limit, auth]
  middlewares:
    rate-limit:
      rateLimit: { average: 100, burst: 50 }

Rate Limiting Algorithms

Fixed Window — Simple counter, bursty
Sliding Window — Rolling counter, lissé
Token Bucket — Flexible, burst toléré
Leaky Bucket — Output constant, strict

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