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6 questions · ~6 min · intermediate

Six questions on API gateway mechanics: local policy snapshots, route-level authorisation, weighted quotas, unsafe retries, trusted context propagation, and gateway sprawl.

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Why do mature API gateway fleets keep route and policy snapshots locally on each data-plane instance instead of fetching gateway configuration from the admin service for every client request?

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