How to maximize the potential of Serverless and Kubernetes in a Visual Canvas. — After three long months of hard work, we’re proud to announce that the LunchBadger Platform is now the Express Serverless Platform. New name, new features and an opportunity to experience a visual canvas ripe with all the important functionality that developers need, without the hype. TLDR: Free 14 Day Trial…

Now with key examples, video walkthrough and production ready code. — As a follow up to the last post about getting started with application specific metrics using Express Gateway, it’s time for a real time example. By the end of this post, you’ll be able to: Put yout plugin into production Test your Plugin View live data from your So, you…

What are JSON Web Tokens? Why do they matter in the context of microservices architectural style? Glad you asked. There’s a lot to discuss when it comes to JSON Web Tokens, but let’s start with an overview of an API Gateway and then we’ll dive deep into JSON Web Tokens…

Easy to follow, step by step guide on getting information you care about. — Unless you’re building a proof of concept or an application that’s not aiming to reach the production, you definitely want to add monitoring and metrics to your system. …

Check out how we’ve learned from real-time production level environments. — Slow on updates. Heads down on the hustle. These two things can sometimes go hand in hand. However; we wanted to take a hot sec and provide more information on the exciting developments since you last tuned in for Express Gateway Release 1.5.0. Express Gateway, an open source API Gateway built entirely on Express.js, reached an important milestone: Production Environments

You asked — we listened. That’s what open source projects should be all about and we love open source! — In the latest release of Express Gateway 1.5.0, we’ve included support for JSON Web Tokens (JWT). This is the primary update for 1.5.0 and we think you’re going to like it. At the end of this post is a special demo and we’ve provided some getting started code snippets as…

Always be shipping code! Open source projects are no exception. In the latest 1.4.0 release, we’ve got a set of brand new features and crushed some pesky bugs. In case you’ve been following along at home, you’ll notice that several of the features and bugs that have been included were…

Learn more about Rate Limiting with code samples and a helpful getting started guide. — Express Gateway has a lot of powerful features beyond just auth. Another important feature is rate limiting, which throttles requests to one or more endpoints. Express Gateway has a lot of tuneable options for configuring throttling: you can throttle requests on a per user, per endpoint, or per pipeline basis…

Let’s start by saying, today is an important day for us. In the months since we initially launched Express Gateway at NodeJS Summit, it’s been an incredible journey of learning, giving back to the developer community and above all — checking out some amazing open source projects. If you’re just…