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?
Mashape Open-Sources Its Kong API Management Platform
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Re: Mashape Open-Sources Its Kong API Management Platform
#12Nice 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? [1] http://www.django-rest-framework.org
You no longer have to code certain features into your API and can let Kong handle it for you :)
Saving you time and money!
Some features: http://getkong.org/plugins/Re: Mashape Open-Sources Its Kong API Management Platform
#13Nice 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? [1] http://www.django-rest-framework.org
you would use both.
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.
Re: Mashape Open-Sources Its Kong API Management Platform
#14Another quality open-source project from Mashape!
I had written a blog post about ~2.5 years ago on building our own API backed system:
http://blog.semantics3.com/building-a-paid-api-offering/
If Kong had been available then, we would have probably gone with it.
Re: Mashape Open-Sources Its Kong API Management Platform
#15This is Marco from Mashape. Let me know if you have any questions/feedback and I will be happy to answer.
If you need a testing Cassandra node to try out Kong, we have created this: http://kongdb.org/
Re: Mashape Open-Sources Its Kong API Management Platform
#16Another quality open-source project from Mashape! I had written a blog post about ~2.5 years ago on building our own API backed system: http://blog.semantics3.com/building-a-paid-api-offering/ If Kong had been available then, we would have probably gone with it.
thanks varun, very cool what you built there! :)
definitely looking forward to possible contributions from you to the github project ;P
Re: Mashape Open-Sources Its Kong API Management Platform
#17Looks 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.
Re: Mashape Open-Sources Its Kong API Management Platform
#18Looks 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.
Are there any plans to abstract out the datastore or make it pluggable. For example, we can replace cassandra with rethink-db or leveldb
Re: Mashape Open-Sources Its Kong API Management Platform
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please do let us know what you think about it! We've worked very hard to open-source it the correct way :)
Well, despite Kong is still on highly development mode[1], the documentations[0] is well written. I'm impressed. [0] http://getkong.org/docs/ [1] https://github.com/Mashape/kong/releases
Thank you, glad to hear my hard work has paid off :)
Re: Mashape Open-Sources Its Kong API Management Platform
#20Looks 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.
For now we have created http://kongdb.org - to have Kong running easily. For production use of Cassandra hosted we suggest Instaclustr.