domain | gravitee.io |
summary | **Summary:**
**1. API Gateway & Management:** - **API Gateway**: Single entry point for clients to access all backend services, handling tasks like routing, throttling, caching, and protocol translation. - **Multi-API Gateway Management**: Centralized management of multiple API Gateways, enabling consistent policies across APIs. - **Use Cases**: Authentication, authorization, rate limiting, API composition, and protocol translation.
**2. API Design & Access:** - **API Design**: Creating APIs that are easy to use, understand, and maintain, following standards like OpenAPI/Swagger. - **API Access**: Managing who can access APIs using roles, scopes, or JWT tokens. - **Pricing**: Implementing pricing models (e.g., free, tiered, subscription) based on API usage.
**3. API Gateway vs Agent Mesh:** - **API Gateway**: Focuses on external access to backend services, handling north-south traffic. - **Agent Mesh**: Deals with internal communication between microservices within a cluster, managing east-west traffic.
**4. Kafka Gateway & Agent:** - **Kafka Gateway**: Enables APIs to produce and consume messages from Kafka topics. - **AI Agent Frameworks**: Use cases for AI agents, like real-time data processing or generating insights using Kafka streams.
**5. API Governance:** - **API Governance**: Ensuring APIs comply with organizational policies and standards, promoting consistency, security, and maintainability. - **Best Practices**: Versioning APIs, defining lifecycle stages (e.g., alpha, beta, stable), and implementing change management processes. - **Tools**: Solutions like Gravitee help enforce governance by providing features like access control, analytics, and API versioning.
**6. API Operations (APIOps):** - **From OpenAPI to Implementation**: Using OpenAPI/Swagger definitions to automatically generate server or client code for different languages. - **JWT Tokens for Secure APIs**: Implementing JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for secure and efficient user authentication.
**7. Kafka Cost Optimization:** - **Reducing Kafka Costs**: Strategies include data compression, batch processing, optimizing topic creation, and leveraging Kafka Connect for external systems integration.
**8. API Call & Gateway Cost:** - **Understanding API Calls**: Tracking successful/failed requests, latency, error codes to improve performance. - **API Gateway Cost**: Pricing models vary by provider (e.g., AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management) and often depend on factors like number of calls, data transfer, request size. |
title | Gravitee.io - Full-lifecycle API Management |
description | Easily unify the management, security, and governance of both synchronous and asynchronous ecosystems with the leading open source API Management platform. |
keywords | management, apis, gateway, more, platform, event, kafka, community, security, governance, control, developer, pricing, agent, design, ecosystem, gateways |
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nslookup | A 199.60.103.149, A 199.60.103.49 |
created | 2025-05-03 |
updated | 2025-05-14 |
summarized | 2025-05-14 |
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