Building Micro Services with .Net Core + Krakend API Gateway

Having an API gateway is one of the standard of building micro services. There are many open source and enterprise version gateways available in market. In terms of open source, Ocelot, Kong, Tyk are few of the popular gateways. Especially for .NET Core Web API projects, Ocelot is kind of goto framework.

While searching for fastest and reliable open source API Gateway, I stumbled upon KrakenD API gateway which is written in Go language. On their website, you can see the performance comparison with Kong and Tyk which is pretty impressive.

KrakenD vs other products in the market. Requests per second in equal conditions. See benchmarks

.NET Core Web API Micro services with KrakenD Gateway

So to give it a try, I have built two services — UsersService and ProductsService in .NET Core 2.2 with basic CRUD operations and exposed their endpoints via KrakenD gateway. For sake of simplicity, I won’t go into how to write Web API services and DI of data services etc.

Refer to source code and README file in below repository to explore more.