This article really came about from the twitter conversation on the below link: https://twitter.com/martinabbott/status/532693203216920576 [https://twitter.com/martinabbott/status/532693203216920576] To elaborate on my original comment, what I was trying to say but requires more than 160 chars to effectively communicate was that I like the API Gateway pattern but it is also one you need to be careful with.  It is very easy to fall into an anti-pattern where your API gateway can become very complex and you end up losing all of the benefits of what you are trying to achieve.  In the Twitter conversation I mentioned that we had used Azure Service Bus [...]