Scaling an Online Store Without an API Gateway

Learn more about APIs → http://ibm.biz/essential-api-guide Learn more about Microservices → http://ibm.biz/microservice-guide Watch "What is an API Gateway lightboard?" video → https://youtu.be/hWRRdICvMNs Watch "Why API Management" lightboard video → https://youtu.be/DBZTNzrZC3E As more websites evolve from a monolithic to microservice architecture, the number of individual services communicating with each other through APIs greatly increases. While it is possible for a client, which could be either a web browser, application or IoT device, to make requests to the relevant microservice directly, this approach can cause some problems as you begin to scale your website. In this lightboard video, Jason Goode with IBM, visually explains some of the limitations you may run into when scaling a website without an API Gateway and using a Direct Client-to-Microservice Communication architecture instead. Check out IBM DataPower Gateway → https://www.ibm.com/products/datapowe... Secure and manage APIs with IBM API Connect → https://www.ibm.com/products/api-connect Sign up for a live demo of API Connect, IBM's API management solution → https://ibm.biz/BdMpXU #WebsiteScaling #Microservices #APIGateway