> Most of the time an "API Gateway" provides nothing. This personal assertion only holds if you somehow chose to adopt a component that you need, or blindly ad

> Most of the time an "API Gateway" provides nothing. This personal assertion only holds if you somehow chose to adopt a component that you need, or blindly adopt components even though you have no idea what you're doing. Discussing these scenarios is pointless and a waste of time though. Meanwhile, reverse proxies and ingress controllers are fundamental components in any service that outgrows a box under the desk, and a API Gateway is nothing more than a specialized reverse proxy whigh offers some high level features as part of it's happy path.