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You have a mobile app and a web app consuming the same API. Mobile needs compact JSON responses, web needs full responses. Which pattern do you use?

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A Single API Gateway with response compression
B Backend for Frontend (BFF) pattern with separate gateways
C Content negotiation with Accept headers
D GraphQL for both clients

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