KrakenD
Ultra-high-performance API gateway
KrakenD is a stateless, declarative API gateway that aggregates and transforms responses from many backend services. It is designed for extreme performance with no shared state.
Key features
- Response aggregation
- Stateless design
- Declarative configuration
- Very high throughput
Strengths
- Released under the Apache-2.0 license
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Kubernetes-ready with Helm charts available
- Active community (2.7k GitHub stars)
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