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Which statement about TLS termination at the API gateway is accurate?
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Which statement about TLS termination at the API gateway is accurate?
Which of these is a legitimate reason to run an API gateway as multiple stateless, horizontally scaled instances behind a load balancer?
A client needs data from three different microservices to render one dashboard screen. Which API gateway pattern addresses this efficiently?
What is a circuit breaker pattern, as commonly implemented at an API gateway?
A gateway route is configured with `strip_path: false` for a service mounted at `/api/orders`. What does this setting control?
What is a key security risk of forwarding the raw client-supplied JWT unchanged to every backend service, instead of the gateway validating it once and forwarding a trusted internal identity header?
What does rate limiting at an API gateway protect against?
A gateway is configured with a service discovery integration (e.g. Consul or Kubernetes service registry). What problem does this solve?
Why do managed cloud API gateways (like AWS API Gateway) often integrate directly with serverless functions (e.g. Lambda)?
What is the key architectural difference between an API gateway and a plain load balancer?
What should happen if a gateway has no timeout configured on calls to a backend service?
What is the primary purpose of an API gateway in a microservices architecture?
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