ThreeMammals/Ocelot

Features

• API Gateways - Functions as a centralized entry point to route, balance, and secure traffic between clients and backend services.
• Request Routing - Functions as an HTTP reverse proxy that maps incoming request paths to specific backend service endpoints using routing rules.
• Microservices Traffic Management - Distributes network requests across multiple server instances and manages service discovery for high availability.
• Middleware-Based Request Pipelines - Processes requests through a sequential chain of handlers to modify headers, verify identity, and enforce rate limits.
• Response Aggregators - Combines multiple downstream API responses into a single composite payload to minimize client network round trips.
• Dynamic Service Discovery - Resolves logical service names to physical network addresses by querying external service registries at runtime.
• Load Balancers - Distributes incoming traffic across multiple healthy backend instances using weighted load balancing to ensure high availability.
• .NET API Gateways - Provides a network gateway for routing, balancing, and securing traffic between clients and backend services using the .NET ecosystem.
• Service Discovery - Locates available backend service instances through automated discovery providers to resolve network addresses.
• API Access Security - Implements security layers that verify user identity and permissions before requests reach internal backend services.
• Edge Security Enforcements - Protects sensitive internal services by verifying user identities and enforcing rate limits at the network edge.
• Token-Based Authentication - Intercepts incoming requests to validate security claims and permissions using token-based authentication.
• Request Orchestration - Aggregates multiple backend service responses into a single result to minimize client network round trips.
• Response Aggregators - Provides the ability to aggregate multiple backend service responses into a single result to reduce client network round trips.
• Reverse Proxies - Acts as a proxy server that forwards client requests to backend servers to provide load balancing and caching.
• API Response Caching - Provides in-memory caching of backend network request results to reduce latency and downstream server load.
• API Response Optimizations - Reduces client round trips by merging multiple backend responses and caching data to lower latency.
• In-Memory Caches - Stores frequently accessed backend data in a local in-memory cache to reduce latency and downstream server load.
• Dynamic Configuration Managers - Provides a management interface for updating gateway behavior and operational parameters without requiring a service restart.
• Weighted Load Balancing - Distributes incoming traffic across multiple healthy backend instances using weighted load balancing.
• Traffic Routing Controllers - Modifies request headers and claims in transit to control how traffic flows between clients and backend APIs.
• Rate Limiting - Restricts the number of calls a client can make per second to protect backend services from abuse.
• API Rate Limiting - Implements rate limiting and request volume restrictions to protect backend services from abuse.
• Request and Response Transformers - Implements functions that modify claims, headers, and HTTP methods during the request transit lifecycle.
• API Frameworks and Tools - API gateway for .NET core applications.
• API Gateways - .NET-based gateway for lightweight API management.
• Distributed Computing - API gateway built specifically for modern web services.

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