"KrakenD API Gateway Essentials"
KrakenD API Gateway Essentials is a comprehensive and authoritative guide for architects, engineers, and decision-makers seeking to master the intricacies of deploying and managing modern API gateways. The book opens with foundational principles, situating KrakenD firmly within the evolving landscape of API gateway technologies, and provides clear comparisons with other leading solutions such as Kong, NGINX, and Apigee. Readers are guided through real-world use cases and adoption criteria, equipping them to choose and justify KrakenD as a flexible and scalable solution for microservices and distributed systems.
Delving into the technical heart of KrakenD, the book meticulously unpacks its configuration-driven architecture, component model, and dynamic workflow. Insights into advanced request handling, plugin systems leveraging Go, concurrency, and data transformation engines enable the reader to design robust, high-throughput API layers. Security forms a central focus, with deep dives into zero-trust patterns, OAuth2/OpenID Connect, JWT management, API hardening, and secure communication, ensuring comprehensive protection across deployment environments.
Beyond technical implementation, the guide explores advanced data processing, observability, troubleshooting, deployment at scale—including Kubernetes and hybrid cloud contexts—and integration with complex enterprise ecosystems. With a forward-looking perspective, it covers emerging patterns, edge and zero-trust computing, and long-term maintenance strategies. Practical, example-driven, and rooted in operational best practices, KrakenD API Gateway Essentials is an indispensable resource for unlocking the full potential of KrakenD in enterprise-grade API architectures.
