Concepts

Our Mission

Our mission is to build a high-performance, secure, and production-grade API Gateway without compromising on maintainability and usability.

Design Principles

4 design principles are defined to achieve consistent growth.

• Simple and Clear Architecture: Architecture must be simple that all uses and developers can understand with lesser time.
• Highly Customizable and Extensible: AILERON Gateway must be extensible as much as possible to cover wider use cases.
• Production Grade: All features must be well tested and be robust to reduce unexpected error on runtime.
• Secure: Security is prior to anything else.

Implementation Principles

5 implementation principles are defined to give directions for developers.

• Highly Customizable: All features should be configurable as much as possible.
• Usability First: Think how the features are used. Make configuration intuitive.
• Secure by Default: Features should work secure by default.
• Minimize Requirement: Reduce the number of required configurations.
• Highly Decoupled: Decouple the components and connect them using interfaces.

Reference System Architecture

AILERON Gateway consider the following architecture as the environment where the it works.

• Ingress
  • can be called from edge computers.
  • can be called from batch applications.
    • may be take longer than the normal API call
    • may require special considerations for authn/authz
  • can come through WAF
  • can come through CDN
    • cache should be considered
  • can come from other gateways
  • can come from MPAs and SPAs, or native apps
  • can come from user-agent based apps (e.g. browser apps) and non user-agent based apps
• Egress
  • can go to synchronous upstream applications
  • can go to asynchronous upstream applications
  • can go to serverless applications
• Run on
  • On-Premise
  • Virtual Machines
  • Containers