Original sourceGoogle Developers Blog
Summary
Google Cloud API Gateway now supports streaming in public preview, allowing real-time, AI-ready APIs to operate behind the gateway without changing API specifications. Supported modes include Server-Sent Events (SSE), chunked/NDJSON, WebSocket, and gRPC streaming, with connections lasting about one…
Key points
- Teams with existing API Gateway governance can bring streaming needs like chat and real-time dashboards back under the same policies and monitoring.
- Streaming has long been a gap in API governance; this update lets real-time AI applications avoid sacrificing authentication and observability for speed.
- Developers can reduce engineering work of building a separate streaming proxy layer; enterprises can enable real-time AI features under existing identity and key policies.
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