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KrakenD

KrakenD emerges as a premier API Gateway, designed for unmatched efficiency, flexibility, and scalability. As a high-performance solution, it acts as a Backend For Frontend (BFF), sitting between clients (frontend) and source servers (backends).

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  • Free
  • Open Source

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  • Mac
  • Linux
  • Online
  • BSD
  • Self-Hosted
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Rackspace
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Docker
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Azure DevOps
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  1.  API Integration
  2.  API Management
  3.  REST API
  4.  Backend

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  • Licensing

    Open Source (Apache-2.0) and Free product.
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    • English

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What is KrakenD?

KrakenD emerges as a premier API Gateway, designed for unmatched efficiency, flexibility, and scalability. As a high-performance solution, it acts as a Backend For Frontend (BFF), sitting between clients (frontend) and source servers (backends). It customizes APIs to deliver exactly what the UI requires, streamlining data aggregation and transformation without the need for any coding.

Developed in Go, KrakenD is recognized for its exceptional performance, capable of handling up to 70,000 requests per second on a single instance, making it the fastest API Gateway available. Its stateless architecture ensures effortless scalability across any number of nodes and regions without complex coordination or database dependencies, offering a simple, declarative configuration method for ease of use.

KrakenD stands out with its comprehensive feature set, supporting a wide range of protocols, API specifications, fine-grained access controls, data transformation, multiple integrations, and caching mechanisms. Its plugin system allows for extensive customizability, meeting unique requirements with ease.

Security is paramount in KrakenD’s design, adhering to OWASP best practices and ensuring data integrity without storing any user data, thus facilitating compliance with strict data regulation policies. Furthermore, KrakenD fosters operational simplicity and avoids vendor lock-in, encouraging interoperability with third-party solutions for logging, tracing, and metrics.

With transparent, predictable pricing, KrakenD offers an open-source community version and an Enterprise Edition with advanced features and expert support. It’s the chosen API Gateway for leading global enterprises, thanks to its ability to improve API performance, manage high traffic volumes securely, and maintain low costs, all contributing to the enhanced maintainability of API infrastructure.

KrakenD not only serves as a powerful API Gateway but also as a strategic partner for companies looking to optimize their digital ecosystem in an increasingly interconnected world.

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