API Gateway or just a Service Mesh Tool?
Article published in APIConference Blog & Whitepaper (Spring 2021)
Large software systems usually do not exist alone and often have many partner systems calling its APIs. The number of partner systems can quickly reach double digits. The smaller the services are cut, which currently tends to happen in projects, the higher the number of partner systems that must be called. An extensive communication network is thus established: a so-called service mesh.