These days, there is a lot of excitement around 12-factor apps, microservices, and service mesh, but not so much around cloud-native data. The number of conference talks, blog posts, best practices, and purpose-built tools around cloud-native data access is relatively low. One of the main reasons for this is because most data access technologies are architectured and created in a stack that favors static environments rather than the dynamic nature of cloud environments and Kubernetes.

In this article, we will explore the different categories of data gateways, from more monolithic to ones designed for the cloud and Kubernetes. We will see what are the technical challenges introduced by the Microservices architecture and how data gateways can complement API gateways to address these challenges in the Kubernetes era.

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