 Hi, this is your host of the Bhartiya on behalf of the Linux Foundation Crack and he recently contributed their open source API gateway project to the Linux Foundation and a new project Called Lura project was born to talk about the project. We have with us co-founder of the project Albert Lamberte Executive director of the Lura project at the Linux Foundation Albert is great to have you on the show Thank you for having me before we talk about the project I want to understand from you. I want you to explain to our viewers. What exactly is an API gateway? An API gateway is a tool that is between the clients, the consumers of an API and the backend services which actually have the data that the users want to consume So an API gateway is a product that makes possible that things like security, rate limiting, authorization, load balancing all that happens Without needing to implement that in the backend part If I'm not wrong, we kind of live in an API driven world No matter what you talk all the connectivities are done through API. So can you also just You explain the basics if you go a step further that what role do these gateways play there? You talked about security, but other you know, just just just to understand. Yes The the economy around the API is thriving. This is something that we have been seeing for the past five years And we are now in a moment where the microservices have exploded and the API gateways Are an essential piece of software that that is between the client and the backend So we can control things Like the security when I say security is for instance all the TLS All the channel that is secured that we want to make sure that the users cannot access the backend services without the ballot Without a ballot token for instance, or we also want to make sure that the users do not Send more traffic than they should expect. So they are very limited. And We have also several Let's say functionalities that we offload from the from the backend services Now, let's talk about crack and D project. There are other projects that are kind of solving the same problem How unique was or is crack and D? What is specifically relevant? Is crack and D what a specific area are you looking at in the API gateway space? Yes, there is a lot of API gateways in the market I think that we are different mainly because We are not coupled to the backend. So what cracking is that it offers a new contract That sits between the client and the services And while other API gateways are connections one to one meaning that one client can connect to one backend services at the time We do a lot of aggregation and functionality in the middle. So the client is actually consuming our API the cracking API and not the services API So that's one one difference. Another difference is that also we have We have functionality that allows to go faster with an API gateway that without the API gateway and might sound It might sound not intuitive because if you add a piece of software in the middle of the communication, it should be slower, but we have things like Concurrent calls that we can stress more the back ends in exchange of having more speed into the client Why did you decide to contribute the project to the Linux foundation? We saw on april 2020 that we had 700,000 Service per month running and This april we had 1.2 million Service running per month. That's a huge number. It's a high. It's a very steep growth and we wanted to make sure that We can grow The same speed as the community We wanted the users to have the project open And with a true open governance model. So it's not that we wanted that our project is An open project from a private company that follows our interests But we wanted to have a really an open governance model and more more people We've seen that companies like oracle or developers from microsoft are contributing our project and we want to make that For real and being in a neutral and open governance forum like the linux foundation is we allow us to To grow more and to have a more open Project that we have right now linux foundation has a very good kind of Structure when it's come to governance managing the pro project and also helping the project grow Is kraken the Like in in form of lura going to have the same kind of governance model or it's going to be a bit different So talk about the the governance model of the project. How does the structure of the project look like? We have taken the let's say the standard governance model from the linux foundation. So we haven't tuned that very little let's say the The more common ways of establishing a new project on linux foundation and Pretty much what it is is that they on day zero we start Our company kraken g will start as the contributors of the of the project And from now on we'll onboard more contributors into the project from different companies and That's let's say the standard open governance model. There's nothing fancy about it And nothing special. Can you also talk about the community around the project? what we are seeing is that companies like oracle have needs to expand our our product to To add new functionality. We have also seen contributions from developers from microsoft and What we see is that our product has a very complete Feature set because it's been used in a lot of companies, but still there are things that need to be need to be added We we constantly seen Contributions that add features like for instance IP filtering or other interesting functionality things that we cannot Take right now from kraken d because we don't have the time But we we want this community to to grow and to make more To make more features with us. We have right now 60 sorry 600 Developers on slack. That's the size of our would say most active community 600 developers that have constant contact with us and request features and ask about Ask about the problems that they face and we also have like 400 forks of the project of the lula project and The kraken overall has more or less 60 contributors that that help us With the problem. Albert. Thank you so much for taking time out today and talk about lura project It's an exciting project I'll be keeping an eye on it and you look forward to talk to you again as their new announcement from the project So thank you and congratulations. Thank you very much for having me I'm hoping to see more more projects like us like ours. Thank you