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Joe SepiLead Developer Evangelist

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What is a Gateway?

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DataPower!

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IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance

“a family of pre-built, pre-configured rack mountable network devices (XML appliances) that can help accelerate XML and Web Services deployments while extending SOA infrastructure. Originally these devices were created by DataPower Technology Inc., which was acquired by IBM in October 2005.[1] “ ~Wikipedia

So, what is a Gateway then?

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• Filter/proxy access to your business logic and data endpoints and services

• Handle authentication

• Enforce any plans you may have, including rate limiting and authorization

• Gather metrics to provide analytics as well as logging

• Act as a security filter checking for malicious code or actions

That doesn’t sound “micro”!

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Enter StrongLoop and Node.js tooling

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So let’s dig in, shall we?

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Thanks!