As a native cloud application developer, you intend to standardize the application programming interface as the contract between clients and backend microservices. Which of the following is the best mechanism? (Wentz QOTD)
A. API Gateway
B. Containerization
C. Representational state transfer (REST)
D. Service mesh
Kindly be reminded that the suggested answer is for your reference only. It doesn’t matter whether you have the right or wrong answer. What really matters is your reasoning process and justifications.
My suggested answer is C. Representational state transfer (REST).
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Microservices are standalone processes that provide services to clients or other microservices through application programming interfaces (API). An API can be treated as the contract between clients and services that defines functions and their input and output parameters. An API can be tailormade or follow a protocol or standard. A RESTful API employs standard HTTP verbs/methods to invoke API.
API Gateway and Sidecar Proxy
An API gateway in a microservices environment mediates traffic from clients to the backend microservices, while a sidecar proxy for each microservice provides communication among microservices in a service mesh.
Containerization
Containerization is an OS-level virtualization technology (e.g., namespaces, cgroups) to deploy microservices.
Reference
作為原生雲應用程序開發人員，您打算將應用程序編程接口標準化為客戶端和後端微服務之間的契約。 以下哪個是最好的機制？ (Wentz QOTD)
A. API Gateway
B. Containerization
C. Representational state transfer (REST)
D. Service mesh