Now let’s understand where IBM DataPower is used in real projects 👇 In real-time applications, your mobile app or website never directly talks to backend services. All requests first go through IBM DataPower. IBM DataPower sits between: ✅ Client (mobile app / web app) ✅ Backend (databases, microservices, servers) And it handles: 🔐 API security (auth, tokens, certificates) ✅ XML/JSON validation ⚙️ Policy enforcement (rate limit, filtering) 🔁 Traffic routing 🔄 Data transformation ⚡ Performance