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API Gateway Service

Microservice orchestration layer

Year
2023
Role
Backend Developer
Duration
3 months
Complexity
★★★★

A platform team's services each rolled their own auth and throttling. The goal: one gateway to unify authentication, rate limiting and usage metering — invisible when healthy, loud when something breaks.

  • Single sign-on across 12 internal services
  • Token-bucket rate limiting with per-tenant quotas
  • Structured request tracing end to end
  • Sub-5ms added latency at p99
12Services unified
3msAdded latency (p99)
-70%Auth-related incidents
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