API gateway
Cerebrum-seminar 2016
Simeon Simeonov
Simeon Simeonov
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... also known as sgs (http://folk.uio.no/sgs/)
Cerebrum developer since February 2015
API gateway vs. API proxy
The integration project at UiO (INT) defines the role API Manager. Why use API gateway instead of API proxy?
Unified access for all our APIs
Unified documentation and catalogue
Unified caching for all APIs
Unified logging / statistics generation for all APIs
Access control / rate limiting for all our APIs
(Re)mapping and (re)writing
API gateway & Cerebrum
For the time being we have settled on Tyk API gateway.
It uses an internal user-database and consists of the following logical components:
Dashboard
Developer portal
Gateway
Dashboard
Provides a convenient web-interface for configuration and manipulation of the gateway and the different APIs.
Portal
Provides the API documentation and catalogue.
Portal
Gataway
For the time being we have settled on Tyk API gateway. It uses an internal user-database and consists of the following logical components:
Tyk dashboard
Tyk developer portal
Tyk gateway