KrakenD API Gateway (Community Edition)
KrakenD API Gateway | 2.7.2Linux/Unix, Amazon Linux Amazon Linux 2 AMI - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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An Api Gateway easy to start with and powerful to end with
What do you like best about the product?
It's so easy to start with it with some basic configuration. The excellent documentation makes it easy. It's straightforward and fast. The stateless architecture makes it very scalable
What do you dislike about the product?
Complex scenarios takes time to understand. It's not widely used so the community is limited. I would appreciate real world example to compare.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We used it for orchestrating calls to out api from the backend for frontend. It scales so well and gives use excellent performance. The config file makes easy to modify by the different teams.
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It's easy to use and maintain. The docs are very helpful and complete enough for us to understand.
What do you like best about the product?
The documentation and plugins are helpful. I appreciate the logging dashboard, monitoing and scalability.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some docs are still incomplete like for logging and things. I hope we can find the full logging and monitoring demo via KrakenD youtube channel
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The microservices problems and throttle handling
Easy to setup and efficient. Really interesting architecture.
What do you like best about the product?
Fast to setup. Quality. Flexibility. Efficiency. Performance
What do you dislike about the product?
Paid enterprise features - a necessary evil
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were in need of common interface and features for our APIs. A gateway approach came to mind, and, after evaluation, krakenD was our choice.
Realmente un excelente producto
What do you like best about the product?
Rápido, ligero, fácil de implementar y de integrar a pipelines automáticos de CI CD y microservicios.
También como middleware es muy flexible muy útil a la hora de unificar apis.
También como middleware es muy flexible muy útil a la hora de unificar apis.
What do you dislike about the product?
la parte restrictiva del producto enterprise, actualmente usamos la versión libre.
la parte restrictiva del producto enterprise, actualmente usamos la versión libre.
la parte restrictiva del producto enterprise, actualmente usamos la versión libre.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. apigateway
2. multi country api integration layer
3. replacing qvantel graphql as a middleware
2. multi country api integration layer
3. replacing qvantel graphql as a middleware
Still an easy to use high performance API Gateway
What do you like best about the product?
After 3 years of productive use, still these are my favourite properties of KrakenD:
- Easy setup.
- Easy configuration.
- Comprehensive Docs.
- No performance issues.
- Easy setup.
- Easy configuration.
- Comprehensive Docs.
- No performance issues.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing at all.
Until now, there was no reason to complain.
Until now, there was no reason to complain.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed an API Gateway for our APIs, and KrakenD fitted our requirements best.
Also licensing and prices are pretty fair.
Also licensing and prices are pretty fair.
Fast, powerful and easy to configure
What do you like best about the product?
I used krakend community edition api gateway in every projects that I worked on. It's very fast to set up and run, very easy to configure, it uses very few resources and has a lot of useful plugins that solve most of the problems that you can encounter. For example in the most case I use plugin for jwt and roles validation on endpoints, plugin for modify request/response headers or plugin for limiting the requests per seconds on endpoints. It has a well done and complete documentation and the authors on GitHub are very active and answers very fast if you have an issue. I love this api gateway.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are only two things that I dislike of Krakend. The first thing is that it is not possible to create wildcard path for endpoints (an architectural decision). The second thing is the conflicts with endpoints that you can encounter for example if you define two endpoints with the same http method like this: "/api/exhibitions/search", "/api/exhibitions/{exhibitionCode}". But this is caused by a limitation of the router package (a Go package called gin-gonic/gin router) used in the core of Krakend.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Krakend helps me to protect every single microservices that exposes rest apis by evaluating the jwt, it also checks the roles inside the jwt for allowing calls to the services only to certains users.
Lightweight, high performance API Gateway
What do you like best about the product?
It's fast and straightforward to get started with basic to moderate use cases. There is an excellent slack channel where the developers are very active in replying to posts. KrakenD is well architected to be easy to deploy and monitor using industry standards such as openmetrics. It has zero dependencies when starting up and running, making it highly reliable.
What do you dislike about the product?
The documentation often misses essential details that can waste time when implementing more complex use cases.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
KrakenD provides security and protection functionality at a gateway level. Features such as authentication, authorization, request validation and circuit breaker shield the backend from issues that could otherwise cause downtime across a wide range of backend services. Having these features at the gateway ensures implementation consistency and prevents time wasted on undifferentiated heavy lifting.
An inspiring code structure
What do you like best about the product?
I am constantly inspired by their code organization and structure for golang projects. Its incredibly solid and well done which breeds excellence over the whole technology stack. There is a reason why KrakenD is brutally fast and stable :)
What do you dislike about the product?
If you require an "invisible" api gateway, similar to a reverse proxy with more functionality, then KrakenD is probably not what you are looking for.
It will fall more along the lines of an intermediate layer for your applications. in the end, it will fulfill the same requirements but in a different way.
It will fall more along the lines of an intermediate layer for your applications. in the end, it will fulfill the same requirements but in a different way.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our main use cases include:
* Avoiding manking many frontend calls for different services that end up traveling the internet, instead we now call once and KrakenD calls the downstream services
* Rate limiting standards for all the services
* Centralized User Authentication to avoid implementing code in every single downstream app
* Avoiding manking many frontend calls for different services that end up traveling the internet, instead we now call once and KrakenD calls the downstream services
* Rate limiting standards for all the services
* Centralized User Authentication to avoid implementing code in every single downstream app
High Performant API Gateway with a great support and tech team behind
What do you like best about the product?
The best thing about KrakenD is its extreme simplicity and design to be operated with a GitOps approach. You can have all the endpoints your team controls in one or multiple repositories and trigger their deployment via automated CI/CD pipelines, ensuring nothing breaks when going to production. Additionally, there is no need to have external auditing tools, as git provides this.
What do you dislike about the product?
Even though the functionality is extensively documented on the web page, I missed a quick introduction or tutorial to go from zero to live with best practices.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
KrakenD helps to expose mashups made of small parts of internal APIs publicly, ensuring users are appropriately validated and with the proper permissions.
Straight-forward and easy to use software
What do you like best about the product?
Easy configuration, nearly plug'n play. We had a running gateway in a matter of minutes.
What do you dislike about the product?
Really nothing, maybe the fact that some advanced configuration required a deeper reading into the documentation.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We wanted to set up a way to normalize and standarize our endpoints in the context of a completely new backend architecture and performance tuning, so it was perfect to establish an independent from services software that we can control where to point services at.
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