Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: In the contemporary digital landscape, the proliferation of application programming interfaces (APIs) has become the cornerstone of enterprise connectivity, cloud-native adoption and digital transformation initiatives.API gateways serve as the central control point for API traffic, providing routing, security enforcement, policy management and scalability in distributed computing environments.However, the rapid expansion of hybrid architectures-where enterprises simultaneously leverages on-premises infrastructures, private clouds and public cloud platforms-introduces unique challenges in securing and scaling API gateways.These challenges include managing heterogeneous workloads, ensuring consistent security postures across environments, enabling zero-trust access models and maintaining high availability while minimizing latency.The hybrid paradigm magnifies the complexity of identity management, encryption, traffic inspection, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection and adaptive scaling of gateways that must operate in both resource-constrained and elastic contexts.
Author: Arjun Warrier
Language: English
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4414530992