SMRTR ProgrammingJul 5, 2026DZone

Building Your API Gateway From OpenAPI Specs: A Spec-Driven Approach

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Hand-maintained API gateway configs drift silently from the actual API contract over time, causing subtle bugs that are expensive to debug. By generating the gateway directly from your OpenAPI spec, you eliminate that second source of truth entirely. The real challenge isn't generation — it's the regeneration pipeline, keeping custom logic out of generated files, and adopting the model incrementally on new APIs first.

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