Show HN: Blackgate – A Simple API Gateway Application

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3 points·soasme··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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