As we've discussed in our previous Service Discovery post, decoupled services in a microservice architecture communicate via APIs. But what about the communication between clients outside of your system and the services within your application? How does that communication work? An API gateway is a powerful component in a microservice architecture. Pairing its functionality with a serverless platform like Koyeb saves engineering teams time and maximizes computing resources efficiency.

We believe latency and caching are crucial subjects we need to talk about. Loading times are a critical component in the user's experience for all apps and websites: new pages and screens should load in less than a second for end-users to have a smooth experience.