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?<p>[1] <a href="http://www.django-rest-framework.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.django-rest-framework.org</a>
open sourcing Kong which powers our API marketplace with billions of calls per day, is not only a major milestone for the team, but also marks a shift in API tooling and services, we're challenging the the status quo and service providers by giving away for free what they charge for in thousands (and in some cases millions) of dollars.<p>making it open source is the icing on the cake!<p>we want to give the power back to the developer community and together create amazing open source tooling, while directly adding years of lessons learned to your development stack.
Glad to see this! Building out this type of infrastructure behind a publicly facing API is never fun. That's partially why one of my API's is hosted at Mashape in the first place!
This is an interesting stack, as it looks to be Nginx + Lua based with Cassandra as the backend database.<p>Not very common, but clearly well thought out and battle tested!
This is Marco from Mashape. Let me know if you have any questions/feedback and I will be happy to answer.<p>If you need a testing Cassandra node to try out Kong, we have created this: <a href="http://kongdb.org/" rel="nofollow">http://kongdb.org/</a>
I know it's so much like 'indirect marketing' things for Mashape.
But, this stuff is pretty helpful for developers to create an API service in minutes.
Thanks so much, Mashape.
Another quality open-source project from Mashape!
I had written a blog post about ~2.5 years ago on building our own API backed system:
<a href="http://blog.semantics3.com/building-a-paid-api-offering/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.semantics3.com/building-a-paid-api-offering/</a><p>If Kong had been available then, we would have probably gone with it.
Looks very useful, congrats! Cassandra dependency may be an obstacle for wider adoption.<p>"Don't worry if you are not experienced with these technologies, Kong works out of the box"<p>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.