It seems that KrakenD does not exist because it hasn't caused any problems so far and is really fast, as promised.
Celso Zavatti
Head of Technology / Ahgora Sistemas
KRAKEND FOR E-COMMERCE
E-commerce runs on APIs, but revenue depends on speed, reliability, and predictable costs. The real challenge isn’t exposure, it’s handling traffic spikes, partner growth, and checkout performance without turning success into risk.
KrakenD helps e-commerce platforms increase conversion, protect revenue-critical flows, and scale without cost surprises, even during extreme demand.
Trusted by High-Scale Digital Platforms
Leading digital businesses rely on KrakenD to handle extreme traffic, protect revenue-critical paths, and scale integrations without performance degradation or operational risk.
Controlled Scale for e-Commerce
Flash sales, Black Friday, product drops, and influencer campaigns can multiply traffic in seconds. KrakenD absorbs these spikes smoothly, without coordination delays or bottlenecks.
stateless design and linear scaling model allow teams to add capacity predictably (no database bottlenecks or cluster instability).
Milliseconds directly impact revenue. Faster APIs mean better UX and higher conversion.
KrakenD delivers minimal and predictable latency, handling up to 80K requests per second per node, while reducing round-trips through API aggregation and concurrent backend calls.
Modern commerce platforms rely on fragmented systems: storefronts, ERPs, OMS, PIMs, payments, promotions.
KrakenD acts as a native Backend-for-Frontend for headless commerce, composing and aggregating responses from multiple backends into a single, optimized API call.
Traditional gateways charge per request, per partner, or per throughput, turning growth into higher bills. KrakenD uses flat-rate pricing with unlimited APIs and throughput.
Flash sales, marketplace expansion, and new channels don’t increase your costs. You scale revenue without being penalized for success.
Built for Revenue-Critical Traffic
In e-commerce, not all APIs are equal. A slow recommendation is tolerable. A slow checkout directly impacts revenue. KrakenD isolates checkout, payment, and inventory flows, ensuring that non-critical services never degrade the paths that matter most.
Through fail-fast behavior and circuit breakers, KrakenD contains failures at the edge. Slow or unhealthy backends are stopped before they cascade across the platform, keeping core commerce operations responsive even under stress.
Why e-Commerce Platforms Trust KrakenD
KrakenD addresses the architectural realities of modern commerce: fragmented systems, partner ecosystems, extreme traffic variability, and zero tolerance for downtime.
Even small delays in e-commerce hurt conversions and revenue. Studies show that improving page and API responsiveness by just a few hundred milliseconds can significantly boost conversion rates.
KrakenD removes latency variability by delivering deterministic performance even during traffic spikes, without warm-ups or shared control planes. By isolating critical paths like checkout and enforcing fail-fast behavior at the edge, backend issues never impact customer-facing performance, keeping conversions predictable when every millisecond matters.
Vendor lock-in can trap e-commerce businesses in rigid platforms that are expensive and hard to exit. Proprietary stacks make data portability, integrations, and adaptation costly, often requiring migrations, retraining, and downtime.
KrakenD avoids lock-in by design. It is stateless, platform-agnostic, and built on open standards, allowing teams to deploy anywhere, integrate with any system, and evolve their commerce stack without being constrained by a gateway ecosystem.
Modernizing legacy systems is a major challenge for digital businesses. Tightly coupled, outdated architectures slow development, block integrations, and make changes risky—limiting the ability to respond to customer expectations and market shifts.
KrakenD enables incremental modernization without rewriting core systems. By sitting in front of legacy services and exposing them as modern APIs, teams can evolve their stack gradually, reduce risk, and cut technical debt while maintaining operational continuity.
AI is becoming central to modern e-commerce, enabling personalization, search, pricing, and conversational experiences. The real challenge is not adopting AI, but exposing secure, reliable, high-performance APIs that AI agents can safely consume across complex stacks.
KrakenD addresses this by acting as an MCP server at the gateway layer, exposing curated APIs as controlled MCP tools. With strict schemas, authentication, rate limits, and isolation, AI models can access commerce data safely without increasing risk or coupling to backend systems.
KrakenD for e-commerce
KrakenD does not persist customer data, tokens, carts, or transaction payloads. There is no database, no runtime admin UI, and no persistent control plane. This dramatically reduces attack surface and simplifies compliance with PCI-DSS and enterprise security requirements.
KrakenD delivers deterministic latency even during extreme traffic spikes. Its stateless, coordination-free architecture ensures that checkout, payment, and inventory APIs remain responsive during peak events when every millisecond directly impacts conversion and revenue.
KrakenD fits naturally into headless and composable commerce stacks. It aggregates and normalizes fragmented systems such as storefronts, ERPs, OMS, PIMs, and payment providers into clean, reusable APIs, allowing teams to evolve channels and integrations independently.
KrakenD does not charge per API call, per partner, or per traffic volume. Flash sales, Black Friday, new channels, and marketplace expansion do not increase your bill. You scale revenue without cost surprises, keeping pricing predictable for finance and frictionless for engineering.
KrakenD removes operational overhead by design. There is no cluster coordination, no shared state, and configuration is fully declarative and GitOps-friendly. Teams operate the gateway like any other stateless service, even under massive traffic growth.
Provided by the engineers building KrakenD (not trained post-sales staff), including dedicated success engineer, onboarding, Slack channel, video calls, and code reviews.
Walk through real-world scenarios: Black Friday traffic spikes. Checkout protection patterns, Partner and marketplace onboarding or Headless and composable commerce architectures.
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