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Effective API Design: 5 Principles to Keep Customers Coming Back

Editor’s Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone’s 2021 API Design and Management Trend Report.

It is easy to get lost in the hype and excitement of our technological decisions — which database to use, which dependency injection framework works best, and which programming language is superior — and lose focus on our goal: Create an application that most effectively solves a customer’s problem. While languages and tools are an important facet of software design, they are not the only aspects we must consider. 

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Multi-tenancy authentication through Kong API Gateway

The API Gateway pattern implements a service that’s the entry point into a microservices-based application from external API clients or consumers. It is responsible for request routing, API composition, and other edge functions, such as authentication.

When working with a microservices architecture, either on a greenfield project or during migration from a monolith, a best practice is to start addressing cross-cutting concerns. Authentication is such a concern, and in this article, we’ll cover the authentication of a multi-tenancy application.