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Central Aggregating Gateway
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How it works
Like the BFF pattern, this pattern creates a custom API that is more appropriate to the use case than the Ed-Fi API, aggregating what would otherwise be multiple calls to fetch data into a single (or fewer, at least) call to the gateway service. Unlike the BFF, the aggregating gateway is generalized to support multiple use cases or applications. It may even present a GraphQL interface instead of a REST interface.
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