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[1]https://www.forrester.com/Sizing+The+Market+For+API+Manageme...
Companies like Apigee/Mashape/3scale/Mulesoft have been doing cloud API management in various forms since 2008. Even Microsoft Azure has an API management offering since two years.
Nowadays all those API gateway features are commodities and doesn't make sense to pay for it anymore. Indeed Open Source projects such as KONG [1] are getting tremendous tractions. Same things happened in search with all cloud solutions and then ElasticSearch came out and was game over.
To reduce complexity and centralize common functionalities API Gateways such as KONG (https://github.com/mashape/kong) are the base of microservice architectures.
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1. Open-source solutions like KONG (https://github.com/mashape/kong) or similar?
2. Built in house?
3. Commercial services such as Apigee, Mashery?
Fast growing OSS projects like KONG [1] for API management or Strongloop are a way to avoid to invest in technologies that are not fully open or usable under the right license.