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Microservices offer significant advantages compared to monoliths. You can scale the development more easily and have precise control over scaling infrastructure. Additionally, the ability to make many minor updates and incremental rollouts significantly reduces the time to market. Despite these benefits, microservices architecture presents a problem — the inability to access its services externally. Fortunately, an API gateway can resolve this issue.

Today, an important measure for success in the tech sector is time to market. The speed at which you can launch your product and any new features can make a huge difference in meeting growing customer expectations, breaking new ground in an existing market, and standing out against your competitors.

If the eyes are the window to the soul, then the Application Programming Interface (API) is the window to the software. After all, an API is a way for products to communicate with each other through a documented interface, just as the eye is a human interface, communicating with the outside world (but it’s not as well-documented as to meanings).

Back in 2018, GitHub celebrated 100 million open source repositories, and it has only been growing since then. How can you make sure your sensitive credentials and authentication tokens aren’t exposed to access by the public? Read this blogpost to learn how to save your API keys and other important data from being disclosed.