Sunday, October 20, 2024

Vulnerability Management - Load Balancer vs. API Gateway

Although this is a concept of system design, but, I thought, we all as a Cybersecurity professional should know this.

An API gateway accepts a client API request and routes it to the correct backend service based on API endpoint. Whereas, a load balancer simply distributes traffic among multiple instances of a microservice based on various factors like health, traffic load etc.

Generally, LBs cannot route an API request to correct backend service as they lack intelligence to understand the API request.

Please find below link to YouTube video for reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkgxvnk8cWw&t=77s

Happy Learning !!
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