I know it's so much like 'indirect marketing' things for Mashape.
But, this stuff is pretty helpful for developers to create an API service in minutes.
Thanks so much, Mashape.
open sourcing Kong which powers our API marketplace with billions of calls per day, is not only a major milestone for the team, but also marks a shift in API tooling and services, we're challenging the the status quo and service providers by giving away for free what they charge for in thousands (and in some cases millions) of dollars.
making it open source is the icing on the cake!
we want to give the power back to the developer community and together create amazing open source tooling, while directly adding years of lessons learned to your development stack.
Glad to see this! Building out this type of infrastructure behind a publicly facing API is never fun. That's partially why one of my API's is hosted at Mashape in the first place!
Nice to see more open-source solutions in this area. I've used the popular Django Rest Framework [1] to implement and manage APIs. Would there be a compelling reason to use Kong for the management aspect?
Django REST Framework (or any other framework) to build your business logic and API services.
Kong is useful to scale and manage acceess to the API for API consumers (as oppose to end users) as well as a plugin system that abstracts HTTP tooling away from your API application, so you can scale them independently.
Looks very useful, congrats! Cassandra dependency may be an obstacle for wider adoption.
"Don't worry if you are not experienced with these technologies, Kong works out of the box"
These kind of statements are problematic. If you are not already using Cassandra, I'm not sure introducing another data store you don't have experience with would be a good move.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 64.7 ms ] thread[0] http://getkong.org/docs/ [1] https://github.com/Mashape/kong/releases
making it open source is the icing on the cake!
we want to give the power back to the developer community and together create amazing open source tooling, while directly adding years of lessons learned to your development stack.
Not very common, but clearly well thought out and battle tested!
[1] http://www.django-rest-framework.org
Saving you time and money!
Django REST Framework (or any other framework) to build your business logic and API services.
Kong is useful to scale and manage acceess to the API for API consumers (as oppose to end users) as well as a plugin system that abstracts HTTP tooling away from your API application, so you can scale them independently.
If Kong had been available then, we would have probably gone with it.
If you need a testing Cassandra node to try out Kong, we have created this: http://kongdb.org/
"Don't worry if you are not experienced with these technologies, Kong works out of the box"
These kind of statements are problematic. If you are not already using Cassandra, I'm not sure introducing another data store you don't have experience with would be a good move.