Something like an "API gateway" does a lot more than load balancing, and sometimes it doesn't even do any load balancing. Are you still going to call it a load-

Something like an "API gateway" does a lot more than load balancing, and sometimes it doesn't even do any load balancing. Are you still going to call it a load-balancer? Gateway is a much better description. In web applications frameworks you also have a 'router' concept, which is also a network thing. It doesn't mean that because the network thing happens to route traffic around that the router in the web application can't route requests to the correct code.