The Payload Template That Could Never Load
Two notions of module identity, a silent continue on a missing file - and a live bug the unreachable code was hiding.
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No Coding Whatsoever
A 2018 API gateway promises that routing, auth, validation and messaging need no code at all - this series reads the source that makes the promise true, and the places where it is not.
One YAML Flag Turns REST Into a Message
Pacco's Ntrada gateway is ninety lines of C# and five hundred of YAML, and swapping one route key - use downstream for use rabbitmq - turns the same HTTP surface from a proxy into a bus publisher answering 202. The two compose files disagree about which one you get.
A Gateway Written in YAML
DShop.Api.Next rebuilds the whole code-first gateway as Ntrada configuration - a 17-line Program.cs and a folder of YAML. Reading both side by side shows exactly what you trade when a gateway becomes data.