Gateway FAQs

Question 1

Does Gateway support dynamic traffic management?

Accepted Answer

Yes, Gateway offers dynamic routing and multiple load balancing strategies, including round-robin, least-connections, and weighted balancing, ensuring efficient and intelligent traffic distribution to your backend services.

Question 2

Is Gateway extensible for custom functionality like authentication or logging?

Accepted Answer

Absolutely. Gateway features an extensible Middleware System that allows developers to add custom hooks for various functionalities such as logging, authentication, custom request/response transformations, and more.

Question 3

How does Gateway ensure resilience and observability?

Accepted Answer

Gateway includes advanced resilience features like Retry and Circuit Breaker per backend. For observability, it provides extensive metrics support, ready for integration with Prometheus/OpenTelemetry, and features hot reload capabilities.

Question 4

What is Gateway and its core purpose?

Accepted Answer

Gateway is a modular TypeScript-based API gateway that bi-directionally bridges communication between MCP (Microservices Communication Protocol) and HTTP, specifically designed for modern microservices architectures.

Question 5

What are Gateway's primary use cases?

Accepted Answer

Gateway is ideal for use as an API gateway, a proxy service, or an event streaming hub for MCP events. It ensures scalable, reliable, and observable communication across your microservices.

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