API Gateway Modernization: Lessons from On-Prem to Cloud
Series Context This article is part of a series on governance architecture: From On-Prem Greenfields → Enterprise Modernization: 10-Year API Gateway Lessons (this article) — The scars that shaped this thinking The AI Gateway: Governance as Enterprise Infrastructure — The diagnosis GATES — The 5 Gates Every AI Gateway Needs — The prescription From On-Prem Greenfields ➡️ Enterprise Modernization: 10-Year API Gateway Lessons My API Gateway journey My API Gateway journey began almost a decade ago inside a Fortune‑150 enterprise, delivering two back‑to‑back Apigee on‑prem greenfield implementations. After years of scaling Apigee under real SLAs and real outages, the inevitable question surfaced: What replaces Apigee on‑prem? ...