| # Api Gateway Workflow | |
| API Gateway pattern with request authentication, rate limiting, request routing to backend services, response aggregation, and error handling. | |
| **Template ID:** `api-gateway-workflow` | |
| **Kind:** workflow | |
| **Source domain:** patterns | |
| **Primary use case:** handoff | |
| **Secondary use cases:** security, mcp | |
| **Complexity:** 3/5 | |
| **Nodes:** 7 | |
| **Lanes:** 2 | |
| **Tags:** [api-gateway, microservices, rate-limiting, request-routing, authentication, load-balancing] | |
| **Source path:** `patterns/api-gateway` | |
| **Repo path:** `handoff/patterns/api-gateway-workflow` | |
| ## Files | |
| - `workflow.fz` — FlowZap Code source | |
| - `metadata.json` — Structured metadata | |