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The whole thing is quite confusing. Is this open source? Is there any demo app that shows how it all works(i.e. the Service Control)? Last time I've checked 'cloud endpoints' was a half baked solution on appengine. I didn't have a good experience with swagger either.

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Hi -- PM on the product here.

Both of our API frameworks have been open sourced (Java[0], Python[1]). Those used to be available only on App Engine Standard Environment but can now be used anywhere. This was a top request of people using Flexible Environments.

But we've added a bunch of functionality to the platform (logging, monitoring, user authentication, tracing) that people can use whether or not they're using our frameworks -- for example, Python+Flask, NodeJS + Express, etc. To use it, you set it up with an OpenAPI Specification (FKA Swagger Spec). We've seen tons of interest in OpenAPI and even joined the Open API Initiative to foster that community.

If you are interested in a walkthrough (that uses Python and Flask), see [2].

[0]https://github.com/cloudendpoints/endpoints-management-java [1]https://github.com/cloudendpoints/endpoints-management-pytho... [2]https://cloud.google.com/endpoints/docs/quickstart-app-engin...

Can you provide keys to API clients and limit the keys to X requests per month?

You can require API keys and provide them to clients. We'll be adding rate limits and quotas soon as well. Are you more interested in X per month or X per second?

Any idea when the rate limits and quotas will be available? Trying to decide whether to use GC or AWS

Interested in both. But more interested in X per month for SaaS billing, etc.

for the proxy are you using NGINX with Lua?

It's pure C++ for now for performance reasons.

IMO NGINX/Openresty is on par with native C++ in terms of performances, but more maintainable long term.

There are some nice examples here: https://cloud.google.com/endpoints/docs/frameworks/python/cr...

It seems like an interesting and useful approach, and it can optionally handle some of the OAuth2 stuff for you when clientIds managed by google. I've been staying away from GCP, but now kind of interested how this works.

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