Mission

Our Mission

Our mission is to build a high-performance, secure, and production-grade API Gateway without compromising on maintainability and usability. We put high priority on good user experience.

Design Principles

4 design principles are defined to achieve consistent growth.

• Simple and Clear Architecture: AILERON Gateway architecture is very simple and therefor easy to understand.
• Highly Customizable and Extensible: To cover various use cases, AILERON Gateway is customizable and extensible.
• Production Grade: All features are well tested for stability.
• 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: All features should work secure by default.
• Minimize Requirement: Reduce requirements and make configurations simple.
• Highly Decoupled: Decouple the components and connect them with interfaces.

AILERON Gateway Technology Landscape

To achieve our mission, AILERON Gateway leverages wide range of networking, APIs and cloud native technologies. This landscape show the key technologies and specifications.

NOTE: Some features have not been implemented yet.

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

References

• Principles of Container-based Application Design