About Mashape
Mashape: The Ultimate Solution for API and Microservice Management
In today's digital age, businesses are increasingly relying on APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and microservices to streamline their operations, enhance customer experience, and stay ahead of the competition. However, managing these complex systems can be a daunting task without the right tools and expertise. That's where Mashape comes in - a leading provider of cloud connectivity solutions that simplify API and microservice management.
Founded in 2010 as an open-source project by Augusto Marietti and Marco Palladino, Mashape has since evolved into a full-fledged platform that enables developers to build, deploy, secure, monitor, and scale APIs with ease. In 2017, the company rebranded itself as Kong Inc., reflecting its focus on providing a unified solution for API gateway, ingress controller (a tool that manages external access to Kubernetes services), and service mesh (a network infrastructure layer that handles communication between microservices).
Kong's flagship product is Kong Gateway - an enterprise-grade API gateway that acts as a front door for all incoming traffic to your APIs. It provides features such as authentication/authorization (using OAuth2 or JWT), rate limiting/throttling (to prevent abuse or overload), caching (to improve performance), logging/tracing/metrics (to monitor usage patterns), plugins/extensions (to add custom functionality), and more. Kong Gateway supports multiple protocols such as HTTP/HTTPS/TCP/UDP/WebSockets/gRPC/SSE/MQTT/Kafka.
Kong also offers Kong Mesh - a service mesh built on top of Envoy Proxy - which provides advanced features such as traffic routing/splitting/shifting/canary testing/fault injection/retry/circuit breaking/load balancing/service discovery/security policies across multiple clusters or clouds. It integrates seamlessly with Kubernetes/OpenShift/Rancher/Istio/Helm/Terraform.
Kong Enterprise is another offering from Mashape which provides additional features such as multi-tenancy/support/training/consulting/priority support/sla/customization options for large-scale deployments.
Mashape has gained widespread recognition in the industry for its innovative approach to API management. It has been featured in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management 2020 report along with other major players like Apigee/Mulesoft/Axway/IBM/Cisco/Tibco etc.
Mashape has also contributed significantly to the open-source community by creating popular projects like Kong/Konga/Cassandra-Lucene-Index/Spectre.css etc., which have been downloaded millions of times worldwide.
Mashape's customers include Fortune 500 companies like Zillow/Nordstrom/Fox/Lufthansa/BMW/Vodafone etc., startups like WeWork/PayPal/Braintree/Docker/Airbnb etc., government agencies like NASA/FDA/EPA/DOD etc., universities like MIT/Harvard/Yale/Berkeley etc., non-profits like UNICEF/Wikipedia/Greenpeace/Oxfam etc.
Mashape has offices in San Francisco/London/Tokyo/Sydney/Bangalore with over 200 employees from diverse backgrounds who share a passion for technology innovation/customer success/community engagement/inclusion/diversity/equality/environmental sustainability/social responsibility values.
In conclusion, if you're looking for an all-in-one solution for your API/microservice needs that is reliable/scalable/flexible/customizable/easy-to-use/easy-to-deploy/easy-to-manage/easy-to-integrate with other tools/services/platforms/clouds then look no further than Mashape/Kong!