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Benefits of the BFF Pattern Improved security: The BFF pattern can conceal sensitive information and send the response back to clients. Shared team responsibility: As front-end and back-end applications are isolated; several teams may work on different aspects of the application.

The BFF pattern creates different back-end services for multiple front-end applications or interfaces. Use this pattern in the following situations: The application relies on shared, general-purpose back-end services. Application services consume data sets that require intensive aggregation on the back end.

Backend For Frontend Architecture Backend For Frontend (BFF) architecture is the key to enhanced and improved user experience. A BFF layer consists of multiple backends developed to address the needs of respective frontend frameworks, like desktop, browser, and native-mobile apps.

Drawbacks to the BFF Pattern There are two very obvious drawbacks of the BFF pattern implementation, dealing with fault isolation and the propagation of blast radius for any failure. A handful of additional drawbacks need to be remunerated if BFFs are employed.

The BFF pattern refers to having one backend per user experience, instead of having only one general-purpose API backend.

An API gateway is a single point of entry for all clients fetching data from the system, while a backend-for-frontend (BFF) is tailored to a specific frontend - typically with multiple BFFs corresponding to multiple frontends.