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Current Situation Analysis Most API gateway tutorials teach you to build a glorified TCP proxy. You configure Nginx, Kong, or Envoy to route /v1/users to a service, add a rate limiter, and call it a day. This approach works for CRUD apps with small payloads.
Current Situation Analysis Most teams treat API versioning as a routing problem. They slap /v1/ and /v2/ onto URLs, or negotiate via Accept headers, and call it done. This approach collapses at scale because it ignores the actual failure point: schema evolution.
Current Situation Analysis When we audited the GraphQL implementation at my previous FAANG-scale service, the schema had evolved into a "God Graph." On paper, it was flexible. In production, it was a financial liability. We were processing 4.
