News KrakenD Enterprise v2.3: Easing Your API Journey

Category: Technical Insights & Best practices

Optimize you API Gateway Management with Flexible Configuration

by Albert Garcia

May 14, 2023

2 min read

Flexible Configuration is a template-based configuration system for KrakenD API Gateway that allows you to manage configurations efficiently and cater to multiple environments. In this blog post, we’ll explore the pain-points it addresses and the benefits it brings to customers. Challenges solved by …

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Understanding the Benefits of an Stateless API Gateway

by Albert Garcia

May 10, 2023

2 min read

API Gateways play a crucial role in modern software architecture, enabling developers to manage and route traffic between client applications and backend services. KrakenD stands out due to its stateless design, which provides several significant advantages over other solutions. What is a Stateless …

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Traffic mirroring: test APIs without tests

by Daniel Lopez

Jul 27, 2021

6 min read

Integration and load testing are in the list of best practices in our sector, but synthesizing good inputs for such tests and analyzing the results are usually two hard things to achieve. This post will show you how we suggest our customers set up a shadow testing system with minimal impact on the …

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How we built our telemetry service

by Daniel López

Mar 15, 2021

7 min read

​ We have run our telemetry system live for the past three years now. In this article, we’ll share code and outline some of the things you’ll need to keep in mind if you want to build an anonymous usage reporting system for an open-source project as we did (at a ridiculous cost). We will show you …

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Doing housekeeping on your configuration file

by Albert Lombarte

May 17, 2019

4 min read

Starting your krakend.json configuration from scratch and writing every attribute in a blank editor might be a difficult and time consuming task, and that’s why we have the KrakenDesigner. KrakenDesigner is an aid tool to generate KrakenD configurations for the uninitiated audience. It produces a …

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How we run KrakenD on Javascript with WebAssembly

by Daniel Lopez

Dec 9, 2018

11 min read

KrakenD is an API Gateway written in Go that uses a single configuration file to define its whole behavior. As the configuration file might be complicated, the KrakenDesigner is a javascript-based user interface to edit this file, and we were missing the capability of reproducing directly on …

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Website development as a sysadmin

by Daniel Ortiz

May 10, 2018

6 min read

As a systems administrator for the past 15 years, I’m not very used to web development as this kind of work has been usually done by other colleagues in every company I’ve worked for. I wanted to create a web application myself using an external API, as an exercise to go out my comfort zone. Some …

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How to work with Golang plugins and KrakenD

by Daniel López

Apr 12, 2018

6 min read

The release of golang 1.8 more than a year ago opened the door to loading dynamic linked components in run time, and we were keen to find out if we could include this great feature in our KrakenD toolbox. We’d like to share our experience and details on how we enhanced our products to support golang …

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Deploying and versioning an API Gateway

by Daniel López and Albert Lombarte

Apr 6, 2018

8 min read

When it comes to maintaining and deploying an API Gateway within an organization, you should always be aware of best practice. A gateway is an extra step between the client and the servers with the power to define a whole new interface, yet it’s so flexible and easy to implement that you might be …

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An API Gateway is not the new Unicorn

by Daniel Lopez and Albert Lombarte

Jan 19, 2018

9 min read

The more we talk to people about API gateways, the more we have come to realize that the term means different things to different people, and more specifically we see a growing trend where developers (but mostly managers) expect an API gateway to be able to perform miracles, usually a long way away …

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