Microservices Design - API Gateway Pattern

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According to the definition by Gartner: “Microservice is a tightly scoped, strongly encapsulated, loosely coupled, independently deployable, and independently scalable application component.”

The goal of the microservices is to sufficiently decompose/decouple the application into loosely coupled microservices/modules in contrast to monolithic applications where modules are highly coupled…