API Management Overview

API Management - the art of funnelling traffic from an API client through to the background service and taking care of things like authentication, rate-limiting, logging, auditing etc.

There are lots of solutions out there - both FOSS and commercial.

Google Solutions

Google have three solutions that they discuss on their cloud platform docs site (mirror):

Seems like API Gateway might be useful if you are running cloud functions. Apigee is SOO SOO expensive - it starts at $700/month.

FOSS Solutions

Started exploring from this list (mirror) :


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Created 21 November 2022 14:41:23 by James
Updated 21 January 2024 14:51:46 by James