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API-first in a regulated industry: how Neostella picked its gateway
by Toni Pinel
“API-first” gets repeated until it loses meaning. Neostella, a legal case-management platform, took a stricter view: if every integration enters through a single door, that door has to do real work, not just route.
The team evaluated AWS API Gateway and came up short on a list of needs: tiered rate limiting backed by their own Redis, declarative configuration in CI/CD, WebSocket support, JWT enforcement on every endpoint, and Datadog integration without glue code. KrakenD became the single control point for inbound traffic, generates its own configuration via Extended Flexible Configuration, and gives the team architectural freedom without vendor lock-in.
Read the Neostella case study for the deployment flow and a side-by-side against their previous setup.