Generating an API Gateway From OpenAPI Specs Five Key Takeaways When your OpenAPI specification becomes the single source of truth, the gap between your API contract and your gateway configuration simply stops existing. Generating the gateway from the spec scales far better than hand-maintaining per-endpoint configuration as your API surface grows into the hundreds. Generated, human-readable service code keeps day-to-day operations manageable — you can read it, reason about it, and trace failures like ordinary software.