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title: "The API Gateway Advantage: Streamlining Security, Performance, and Scalability"
description: Learn how to manage request routing, authentication, and rate limiting effectively to keep your applications efficient and resilient. Perfect for teams building or scaling microservices-based systems.
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The API Gateway Advantage: Streamlining Security, Performance, and Scalability

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API Gateways act as the front door of your application. They are critical for managing traffic between various clients and your services, ensuring secure, scalable, and high-performing architectures.

This webinar will cover how API Gateways simplify security, optimize performance, and handle traffic from various clients while seamlessly integrating a variety of services, including your own microservices and external services from third-party vendors. Learn how to manage request routing, authentication, and rate limiting effectively to keep your applications efficient and resilient. Perfect for teams building or scaling microservices-based systems.

Key Takeaways:

- The different types of API Gateways and when to use them
- How to simplify security by routing traffic through an API Gateway
- How to use ngrok as an API Gateway to avoid vendor lock-in
- Preventing overloading of services with rate limiting
- How API Gateways help you scale your application

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###### Senior Technical Engineer - ngrok

Mandy Hubbard is a seasoned technologist with a strong QA and developer advocacy background. She is passionate about software quality, CI/CD, good processes, and great documentation. Mandy is currently a Sr. Technical Engineer at ngrok, where she combines her technical experience and creative skills to help bring new features to customers.

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###### Principal Developer Advocate - ngrok

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