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Kraken

KrakenD is an extensible, declarative, high-performance open-source API Gateway.

Its core functionality is to create an API that acts as an aggregator of many microservices into single endpoints, doing the heavy-lifting automatically for you: aggregate, transform, filter, decode, throttle, auth, and more.

KrakenD needs no programming as it offers a declarative way to create the endpoints. It is well structured and layered, and open to extending its functionality using plug-and-play middleware developed by the community or in-house.

KrakenD focuses on being a pure Layer 7 API gateway, not coupled to the HTTP transport layer, and it has been in production in large Internet businesses since early 2017.