Spring Cloud Gateway Complete Guide: Routes, Filters, and Rate Limiting with the Leaky Bucket Algorithm
Overview
A microservices gateway is a system that provides centralized authentication, security control, unified logging, monitoring, and rate limiting by exposing a single entry point.
Spring Cloud Gateway Workflow
A client sends a request to Spring Cloud Gateway. The request is first extracted and assembled into a gateway context by HttpWeb ...
Posted on Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:08:21 +0000 by transfield
Frontend-Backend Integration Strategies for Distributed Systems: Local, Staging, and Production Scenarios
Effective collaboration between frontend and backend services in distributed architectures requires careful configuration of request routing, especially when switching between local development, staging, and production environments. This guide outlines three common deployment scenarios using Vue.js, Spring Cloud Gateway, Kubernetes, and Nginx, ...
Posted on Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:10:08 +0000 by BryonS
Spring Cloud Gateway: Custom Filters and Filter Factories
Custom Gateway Filter Implementation
When you need to implement custom logic within the gateway's request processing pipeline, the GatewayFilter interface provides the necessary hooks. Below is a timing filter that meausres request duration:
import org.springframework.cloud.gateway.filter.GatewayFilter;
import org.springframework.core.Ordered;
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Posted on Tue, 19 May 2026 09:32:19 +0000 by erikwebb