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		steviesands on Feb 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Service mesh use cases (2020) API gateways are primarily used for HTTP traffic coming from clients external to your backend services eg. an iOS device (hence the term 'gateway' vs. 'mesh'). I don't think they support thrift or grpc (at least aws doesn't, not sure about other providers). https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/

alasdair_ on Feb 11, 2023 [–]

Google cloud supports grpc on their api gateway: https://cloud.google.com/api-gateway/docs/grpc-overview

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