Modern software offers API management that will help your applications, and services interact with each other effectively and securely. Companies rely on APIs to automate processes, improve user experience, and connect with external services.
But an API gateway is also a trap for building unnecessary complexity, with machine-centric configuration options, editors, and XML-based workflows that slow down developer workflows.
Zuplo solves these pain points by providing a fully programmable API gateway that is coded directly by developers, removing complexity and empowering unlimited customization capabilities.
Basis of a Programmable API Gateway: Code Over Configuration
In contrast, most API gateways depend on static configurations that developers have to painstakingly alter through cumbersome interfaces, XML workflows, or inflexible JSON-based settings. These limitations make progress slow, create maintenance overhead, and picture what developers can do.
Zuplo removes these barriers, enabling developers to build API logic code directly. No more learning complex UI-based configuration workflows. Developers can write their policies and API behaviors in a way that makes the most sense to them.
Key Advantages:
- No XML Workflows: Most of the traditional API gateway require XML-based configurations with extensive management and modification. Zuplo simplifies this by enabling direct coding.
- No Custom Editors: Some platforms require developers to use proprietary or limited editing environments. You can work in established development tools and environments with Zuplo.
- Pure Code Implementation: It is also possible to provide a pure code implementation through which developers can implement their policies and extend any API functionality directly by coding instead of embedding the codes as JSON strings.
With Zuplo, developers have total control over API management, while not being limited by legacy methods of configuration.
Unlimited Extensibility: Create Exactly What You Want
Many traditional API gateways are restrictive, offering a limited set of configurations and well-defined behaviors. As a result, these limitations require developers to mold their APIs to the tool rather than letting the tool mold around them. Zuplo is different, we provide unlimited extensibility so developers can build exactly what they want with no limits.
Reasons why Unlimited Extensibility is Important:
- Flexibility for Customization: Developers will not be limited by hardcoded configurations; they can write their own logic to meet their API needs.
- Improved Dev Productivity: Overcome frustrating workarounds forced by low configuration flexibility.
- Flexibility to Evolve: The business has the flexibility to make changes to API behavior as the needs of the business change in real-time, without the need to wait for platform updates or support.
Zuplo offers an open-ended framework that gives developers the tools to write and deploy custom logic, which increases the adaptability and efficiency of API management.
Runs in the Gateway: High-Performance Customization
This is a very common problem with classical API gateways as they involve running custom logic in exterior processes and this translates to delay and slowing down of API responses. This can lead to performance implications in cases where custom policies, security checks, or data transformations happen outside the core gateway.
- Zuplo removes this bottleneck: They run all your custom extensions at the API gateway level with high-speed request execution, at the edge of your API at the edge of the internet, with no hoops to jump through.
- Low Latency: Because your custom policies run inside the gateway, APIs respond quickly and efficiently.
- Smooth Processing: API requests are processed directly without slower-tier processing.
- Stable Execution Environment: Through the gateway infrastructure, developers can be assured that their custom logic will always execute consistently and reliably.
By centralizing custom logic inside the gateway, Zuplo guarantees that API customizations don’t adversely affect performance.
Describe Your Requirements: Limitless and Constraint-less
With Zuplo, developers can write pure code implementing business logic, security policies, and API behavior directly in the gateway. Zuplo – unlike legacy gateways that force a vendor-led, rigid workflow on developers, it breaks these vendor-locked workflows.
How Developers Benefit:
- No-Code and Low-Code Approach: Define your policies, authentication, and other logic using standard programming languages.
- Specialized Code: You have nice, neat, and well-structured code for better long-term maintainability.
- Scalability: Developers will not be hampered by configuration limits and can easily update and extend their API management strategies as the business grows.
With a code-first approach, Zuplo ensures the flexibility that business and technology landscapes require.
Code at the Edge | API Performance Faster, Smarter
A very powerful feature of Zuplo is the custom logic that can run at the edge, using a globally distributed infrastructure to deliver your API endpoints. Zuplo reduces latency, enhances response times, and optimizes API performance by executing API logic in proximity to end users.
Key Benefits:
- Reduced Latency: The API request happens near the users instead of the server, resulting in less round-trip latency.
- Less Load on the Backend: Authorization, caching, and rate-limiting happen at the edge, putting less strain on backend resources.
- Improved User Experience: When you experience lower latency, there are faster response times, higher performance, and a more fluid user experience.
Zuplo offers businesses the power of edge computing with high-performance APIs that scale effortlessly.
Extend + Integrate: Look Past the Basics
While most API Gateways offer a standard set of features, they do not accommodate specific/complex use cases. Zuplo expands on the concept with the ability for developers to make use of existing componentry or build entirely bespoke policies to tackle the toughest edge cases.
Why This Matters:
- Full-spectrum API Management: Developers have the power to extend the gateway’s functionality according to specific requirements.
- Seamless Integrations: Connect with various tools, databases, and cloud services.
- Performance is tuned: It can be the availability of business rules (few functions), polymorphic transformations (or data service), and authorization policies.
Zuplo helps you realize that API management is a bit more than just a connectivity solution, it is a potential catalyst for innovation.
Inventory Requests to Storage: Efficient Logging & Auditing
API management does not only manage requests but also logs, auditing, and traffic analysis for insights and compliance. Is a storage, so it makes it easier to track and analyze the data that you are using with the API.
Request archiving benefits:
- Regulatory Compliance: Make sure legal and industry standards are being met by keeping an audit trail of all API interactions.
- Better debugging: Store request data, which is useful for troubleshooting issues and optimizing your API performance.
Zuplo makes archiving requests simple and effective and with that the compliance with security and governance requirements while helping businesses to gain better visibility across API traffic.
API Management will be Programmable
Zuplo revolutionizes API management by placing complete API controls in the hands of developers through code. Zuplo aims to reshape API management into a developer-centric at the same time agile process by providing unlimited extensibility, executing logic in the gateway, and allowing edge computing and seamless integrations.
With Zuplo, developers can:
- Create APIs designed precisely to their requirements without being limited by configuration.
- Edge computing and in-gateway code execution to optimize your performance
- Supporting complex use cases by extending and integrating the APIs.
- Handle security, routing, and business logic with code.
Final Remarks
With the expanding role of APIs in digital transformation, selecting a gateway that balances flexibility, performance, and developer efficiency is of utmost importance. Zuplo is the only truly programmable API gateway, giving developers the freedom to create without limits.
Try Zuplo out for yourself today, and see what working with APIs without complexity is like.