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Gateway

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounCommon term

In software engineering, gateway means: A component between clients and services that routes requests and may handle security, limits, logging, or protocol conversion.

In Turkish: ağ geçidi

How it is used

Common in API and integration design. Teams use a gateway as a single entry point to apply authentication, observe traffic, and protect internal services.

Example sentences

  1. The mobile app now sends partner traffic through the gateway so operations can enforce rate limits without changing each service.

    Here, gateway is the central layer in front of multiple services, where shared traffic rules are enforced once for all requests.

  2. During the migration, the gateway converted legacy XML requests into JSON before forwarding them to the new billing API.

    In this example, gateway performs format translation so older clients can still communicate with a newer backend interface.

Common collocations

  • API gateway
  • payment gateway
  • gateway service
  • gateway layer
  • APIShort for application programming interface: a set of rules that lets one program ask another program for data or actions in a fixed, documented way.
  • endpointA specific URL of an API that accepts requests for one kind of action, such as GET /users to list users or POST /orders to create an order.

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