вЂњe have a massive amount of traffic and a complex ecosystem of around 500 microservices and different datacenters,вЂќ said Apler Hankendi, the companyвЂ™s engineering director, in a statement. That capability has attracted customers looking to transition from monolithic to microservices development, and also those looking to streamline huge numbers of microservices, Lombarte said.ДЄt least one of KrakenDвЂ™s customer/partners, an e-commerce company called Hepsiburada, based in Turkey, says the ability to aggregate microservices was a key feature in adopting the technology. The company describes the product as being able to вЂњerge many calls into one.вЂќ вЂњWe work with more than Kubernetes,вЂќ says Lombarte. The founding team created a stateless API gateway written in the Go language that is distinguished by performance and the ability to aggregate microservices, irrespective of their origin. The startup called KrakenD launched four years ago in Barcelona, Spain. вЂњWe want the project to stay open source and not be influenced by marketing,вЂќ he noted. Lombarte also would like to see what more can be done with the technology, without the restrictions of specific vendors. KrakenD was designed to be open source from the start, he said, and just over the last month, the company has seen server implementations double to 1.8 million worldwide. Lombarte said the speedy uptake of the KrakenD engine is one reason why itвЂ™s being donated to the Lura Project now. вЂњBy being hosted at the Linux Foundation, the Lura Project will extend the legacy of the KrakenD open source framework and be better poised to support its massive adoption among more than one million servers every month,вЂќ said Albert Lombarte, CEO of the KrakenD company, in a statement. It also spotlights the popularity of this particular solution. The move highlights the growing importance of API gateways to enterprise networks. KrakenD, an open-source framework for building application programming interface (API) gateways, has been donated to the Linux Foundation, which has dubbed it the Lura Project.

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