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Amazon API Gateway vs n:point: What are the differences?
Developers describe Amazon API Gateway as "Create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale". Amazon API Gateway handles all the tasks involved in accepting and processing up to hundreds of thousands of concurrent API calls, including traffic management, authorization and access control, monitoring, and API version management. On the other hand, n:point is detailed as "JSON storage bins with schema validation". JSON storage bins that won't break your app Set up a lightweight JSON endpoint in seconds, then add a schema to edit your data safely at any time..
Amazon API Gateway and n:point belong to "API Tools" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Amazon API Gateway are:
- Build, Deploy and Manage APIs
- Resiliency
- API Lifecycle Management
On the other hand, n:point provides the following key features:
- Schema validation - Add JSON Schema to enforce the structure of your data
- Schema and data locking - Once you're confident that your schema or data won't change, lock them down so your app will never break
- Flexible syntax - Forget the quotes! You can use javascript object syntax ({ a: 1 } instead of { "a": 1 })
n:point is an open source tool with 55 GitHub stars and 3 GitHub forks. Here's a link to n:point's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Amazon API Gateway
- AWS Integration37
- Websockets7
- Serverless1
Pros of n:point
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Cons of Amazon API Gateway
- No websocket broadcast2
- Less expensive1