# 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, architecture, patterns  
**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