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An API gateway should only serve external users

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GLavagetto (WMF) (talkcontribs)

I would suggest the removal of "and internal" from the description.

We've seen over and over how internally sending all the requests from every place through a gateway is a bad idea with RestROUTER.

I would like that on the long term, only external requests would flow through the api gateway, and that internal calls between services would go directly from one to the other.

EvanProdromou (talkcontribs)

By "internal" I mean internal to our organization, that is, WMF client developers -- our mobile apps, desktop and mobile web. I can see how this is easily confused with "internal to our network".

Is there a better term I can use there, instead of "internal"?

EEvans (WMF) (talkcontribs)

In-house?

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