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An API gateway is a networking software that accepts requests from clients and routes them to your backend services. It sits between the public Internet and your internal IT infrastructure. It usually also performs a number of housekeeping tasks, such as authentication, logging, rate limiting, metering, auditing, and possibly payload transformations.