Gateway

A service that acts as a single entry point for APIs, routing requests while handling authentication, rate limiting, monitoring, and other cross-cutting concerns.

An intermediary service that receives requests, forwards them to appropriate target systems, and returns the response.

An interoperability pattern that provides a simplified, unified interface to a more complex system, service, or collection of components, reducing integration complexity and hiding underlying implementation details.

The process of converting messages and data formats between different communication protocols to allow disparate systems to interact.

An architectural layer that mediates communication between applications, services, AI agents, and external systems by handling data transformation, protocol translation, routing, authentication, and orchestration to enable seamless interoperability.