# How (and why) we designed the Event Gateway

DevFeed: [How (and why) we designed the Event Gateway](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-and-why-we-designed-the-event-gateway-14161.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.serverless.com/blog/designing-pragmatic-tool-event-gateway>)

Author: Maciej Winnicki

Published: 2017-10-13T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Serverless Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/serverless-blog.md>)

Topics: [Tool](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tool.md>)

Tags: [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [aws-lambda](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws-lambda.md>), [cloud-computing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-computing.md>), [design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/design.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [faas](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/faas.md>), [function-as-a-service](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/function-as-a-service.md>), [gateway](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gateway.md>), [infrastructure-as-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure-as-code.md>), [serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless.md>), [serverless-architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless-architecture.md>), [serverless-framework](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless-framework.md>), [tool](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tool.md>)

## AI overview

An article about the design considerations behind the Event Gateway, including the balance between exploring new ideas and maintaining real-world practicality.

## Source excerpt

How do you design a tool that tows the line between 'exciting new ground' and 'real world practicality'? We asked a lot of those questions with the Event Gateway.