WebHack Meetup #7 Gate Keeper: API Gateway

Technology

• API Gateway
• Kubernetes
• Nginx microservice
• Docker

Description

If you are using or planning to use Microservice Architecture, you don't want to miss this, as you need API Gateway to orchestrate your individual services.

In this event, the speaker Greg will share several lessons learnt from operating Kong, an open-source API gateway system, on Kubernetes, an open-source container management platform.

Details

While microservices provide fine-grained functions and lightweight protocols to compose a comprehensive application system, how to manage different APIs from different microservices and provide an unified interface for better resource accessing and reducing cost of bridging different APIs become more essential. Moreover, for such centralising role, the gateway itself should be as much robust and scalabe as possible.

To meet these requirements, we choose Mashape's Kong as solution, which is based on the Nginx web server and OpenResty framework. We have found this solution on Kubernetes platform provides most features we need, including performance, scability, and the power to customise the gateway system. However, we also learnt some lessons from obstacles to achieving our goal.

Language

English

Schedule

Details

• Time
  • 19:00-20:10
• Location
  • 赤坂溜池タワー 13F
• Transportation
  • 東京メトロ 銀座線・南北線 溜池山王駅 11出口 (徒歩約4分)
  • 東京メトロ 千代田線 赤坂駅 2出口 (徒歩約4分)
  • 東京メトロ 丸ノ内線・銀座線 赤坂見附駅 10出口 (徒歩約9分)
• Contact
  • 080-8495-1823 (Mr.Bible)

Amenities

• elevator
• table
• chair
• whiteboard
• cookies
• wire-line network
• wire-less network
• water