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Show HN: Blackgate – A Simple API Gateway Application (pythonhosted.org)
3 points by soasme on Aug 31, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments



some feedback on the documentation...

From the intro, I don't fully understand what this is. Is it a web server, is it a reverse proxy, is it for microservices?

Also, you mention Kong and Nginx+Lua without drawing too much distinction. If those are alternates, why would someone choose to use this over those alternates?


Thanks for your feedback. I am keeping on fixing documentations...

And yes, Blackgate is a reverse proxy for microservices. The reason not using Kong is because if you want to start a Kong cluster, you have to run a bunch of dependencies in several nodes, like Nginx, PostgreSQL, etc. Blackgate is much simpler in this case. Write config, and Run instance. Nothing more.

I believe the architecture is not built in one-day. In early state, we can choose a simpler tool to avoid over-engineering.


Cool, being a specialized simple tool is a good differentiator. Maybe a link to the source code too. Usually when I check out a new project like this I like to see what language it's written in and look under the hood a bit.


First post in SHOW HN. So lack of experience :)

This is the repo: https://github.com/soasme/blackgate Written in Tornado.


I did not see a link to the implementation on the page.


Thank you, brudger.

I have added some useful links in the left of documentation page.




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