API Gateway Template — Architecture (agents)¶
Agent intent¶
Place routing, authZ-at-perimeter, rate limits, and BFF aggregation here. Business invariants stay in downstream Microservice services.
Canonical: Architecture — public
Northbound vs southbound¶
flowchart LR
C[Clients]
G[Gateway]
S[Microservices]
C --> G
G --> S
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- Northbound: validate bearer tokens, enforce quotas, strip or add headers.
- Southbound: forward correlation / tenant headers consistently (contract with platform).
Multi-tenancy¶
Agents must not invent ad-hoc tenant resolution—align with platform multitenancy and configuration alignment.
Failure domain¶
Gateway outage = total ingress failure. Prefer circuit breaking, timeouts, and clear health probes (see Runbook).