Krakend High Performance Stateless Api Gateway

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name: "KrakenD High-Performance Stateless API Gateway"
slug: "krakend-high-performance-stateless-api-gateway"
description: "KrakenD is an ultra-high performance, stateless, declarative API Gateway written in Go. It helps adopt microservices architecture with content aggregation, rate limiting, security policies, and telemetry integration."
github_stars: 2595
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/krakend/krakend-ce"
category: "Developer Tools"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "krakend/krakend-ce"
  github_stars: 2595
---

# KrakenD High-Performance Stateless API Gateway

KrakenD is an ultra-high performance, stateless, declarative API Gateway written in Go. It helps adopt microservices architecture with content aggregation, rate limiting, security policies, and telemetry integration.

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- docker run -it -p "8080:8080" krakend
- make build
- make build_on_docker

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- **True linear scalability**: Thanks to its **stateless design**, every KrakenD node can operate independently in the cluster without any coordination or centralized persistence.
- In its simplest form with the [offical Docker image](https://hub.docker.com/_/krakend):
- Or, if you don't have or don't want to install go, you can build it using the golang docker container:

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- KrakenD is an extensible, ultra-high performance API Gateway that helps you effortlessly adopt microservices and secure communications. KrakenD is easy to operate and run and scales out without a single point of failure.
- **Throttling**: Limits of usage in the router and proxy layers
- ## Run

- Source: https://github.com/krakend/krakend-ce
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/krakend/krakend-ce/HEAD/README.md

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/krakend-high-performance-stateless-api-gateway/)