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Is small from a VC prospective. Especially in 2015-2020. Everything under 1B is tiny. Plus, when there are soo many players you will end up fighting like crazy just the get bread crumbs.
there is no real active development on apiaxle and api umbrella is low looking at their pulse.
apiaxle and apiumbrella have few features actually. vulcan is not for api management and beside that quality > quantity.
the more complete is the integration, the more locked in you are.
have you tried KONG or API Umbrella?
that's not similar. there is no API management in there.
Smart move for AWS, but they are not innovating nothing here, just following. Late.
Companies like Apigee/Mashape/3scale/Mulesoft have been doing cloud API management in various forms since 2008. Even Microsoft Azure has an API management offering since two years.
Nowadays all those API gateway features are commodities and doesn't make sense to pay for it anymore. Indeed Open Source projects such as KONG [1] are getting tremendous tractions. Same things happened in search with all cloud solutions and then ElasticSearch came out and was game over.
[1] https://github.com/mashape/kong
Apps that follow the microservice pattern will not consist entirely of independent services, as there is still a need for a central component that can do request handler for responding to user events or routing and initiating individual service processes.
To reduce complexity and centralize common functionalities API Gateways such as KONG (https://github.com/mashape/kong) are the base of microservice architectures.
Do you guys use Kong (
https://github.com/mashape/kong) or similar open-source solutions for API management; went with commercial services such as Mashery or you built that in house?
Just curious.. what do you guys use for API management to handle authentications, logging, rate-limiting, etc..
1. Open-source solutions like KONG (https://github.com/mashape/kong) or similar?
2. Built in house?
3. Commercial services such as Apigee, Mashery?
That's why we need more open source under MIT license in the API space.
Fast growing OSS projects like KONG [1] for API management or Strongloop are a way to avoid to invest in technologies that are not fully open or usable under the right license.
[1] https://github.com/mashape/kong
Open-source API Management KONG (
https://github.com/mashape/kong), which is based on NGINX, uses the same workaround of Async wrapppers to make requests faster.
Yes they open-sourced it a month ago I think... You made a lovely repo and great idea for the PR!
There is
http://mashape.com too. They have almost 3000 APIs, fully documented, with SDKs in Java/Android, PHP, Ruby, Python, iOS and Win8. And an interactive test console for each endpoint + real-time status and avg latency.
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culo on Thursday March 14, 2013 @04:11PM
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