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Reqres vs KrakenD: What are the differences?

Developers describe Reqres as "Test your front-end against a real API". A hosted REST-API ready to respond to your AJAX requests. On the other hand, KrakenD is detailed as "A high-performance open source API Gateway". Its core functionality is to create an API that acts as an aggregator of many microservices into single endpoints, doing the heavy-lifting automatically for you: aggregate, transform, filter, decode, throttle, auth and more.

Reqres and KrakenD can be categorized as "API" tools.

Some of the features offered by Reqres are:

  • Reqres does not store any of your data at all
  • Fake data
  • Real responses

On the other hand, KrakenD provides the following key features:

  • Throttling and usage quotas
  • Extensible architecture
  • Circuit breaker

Reqres is an open source tool with 965 GitHub stars and 131 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Reqres's open source repository on GitHub.

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    Stateless
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    Documentation
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    Best performant
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    Easy to install
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    GitOps oriented
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    Easiest to install
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    Fake data
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    RESTful API
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    Open source
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    Always-on
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    Rapid prototyping of interfaces
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    Language agnostic
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    Hosted on Digital Ocean

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What is KrakenD?

Its core functionality is to create an API that acts as an aggregator of many microservices into single endpoints, doing the heavy-lifting automatically for you: aggregate, transform, filter, decode, throttle, auth and more.

What is Reqres?

A hosted REST-API ready to respond to your AJAX requests.

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