Well.. to understand the value you need to have a bit of knowledge on how microservice architectures work and why an API Gateway (like Kong, which is the most p

Well.. to understand the value you need to have a bit of knowledge on how microservice architectures work and why an API Gateway (like Kong, which is the most popular OSS solution for that) is a fundamental part of it. ;) I suggest to start from here to get up to speed: http://microservices.io/patterns/apigateway.html http://microservices.io/patterns/apigateway.html