Proxies, Gateways, and Meshes: Cloud Connectivity 101 for...
summary
Compares concrete uses: API gateways (example: Kong with plugins) handle auth, TLS termination, rate limiting, request transformation, mocking, documentation and monetization for API-as-product and legacy clients at the edge; service meshes deploy a sidecar proxy per service to provide discovery, routing, mTLS and telemetry with a control plane / data plane split that tolerates control-plane loss. Recommends gateway for external, client-facing APIs and monetization; recommends mesh for internal microservices where sidecars are deployable and multi‑region routing or fine‑grained east‑west policies are required.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 6:26API Gateway
- 8:36Service Connectivity
- 15:02API as a Product
- 19:35Full Lifecycle API Management
- 27:10Kuma Mesh Architecture Overview
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