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"Zuplo has really delivered. We’re an API-first company... We have great performance. We have great observability. It fits with our platform.” - James World, System Architect at Imburse

Imburse Payments are a leading payments middleware provider for the insurance market. As an API-first company, their choice of API gateway is a critical decision. Recently, I got to interview James World, System Architect, and (Andrew Withers, SRE at Imburse)[https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-withers-3a651096/], about their decision-making process that led to them going live with Zuplo.

Imburse primarily used Microsoft Azure as their cloud and hosting provider and so their default choice is to use services provided by Microsoft, in this case, they looked at Azure API Management (founded by me, Zuplo’s CEO when I worked at Microsoft) but decided that Zuplo was a better fit for their needs.

They highlighted several motivations for them in looking for a gateway and making the final decision to use Zuplo. They have a modern, microservice-based architecture and had been using the common approach of routing requests based on embedded Kubernetes features, but realized it was time to “up their game” and add rate-limiting and a cleaner, more consistent way of implementing security, authentication, and observability.

James and team are passionate about the developer workflow and invest heavily in having an optimum workflow that supports their agile approach. “We're able to make changes very quickly. And so we've always taken the approach of having an automated deployment pipeline, from that first push all the way through to automated testing and getting things into production. Our goal is that we are able to get changes into production, ideally within minutes.” said James, “If the tool can't support that goal, then we don't like it.”.

Andrew added, “It’s very important for us to follow a GitOps approach to deployment. We tried to use Azure API Management, and it was far more challenging than it needed to be — most gateways just don’t lend themselves well to this approach. When we saw how Zuplo worked and how clean it would be, it was a bit of a blessing.”

Imburse are also making heavy use of Zuplo’s native programmability — “I was able to put together prototypes of custom policies and custom rate-limiting algorithms and test them in literally minutes.” notes Andrew. “We actually have three levels of rate-limiting now - a custom rate limiter for users who are coming in through an authenticated flow where we can identify the organization that they work for. A fallback for a different type of authenticated user, and then we have another fallback for IP-based rate limiting. So even our anonymous methods are being rate limited now.”

They also care deeply about observability, and it was important that their chosen solution would work well with their preferred observability platform — Datadog.

“We wanted a holistic view of our estate, and we didn’t have that before Zuplo. if we wanted to look at calls coming into different parts of the system, we would have to go into individual services and go query those individually. By sort of introducing Zuplo and adding in the Datadog plugin, we were then able to create views that showed us all requests across all APIs in one view, which was really powerful. Really important. It allows us to very quickly pinpoint errors and spot problems as they're happening. It also allows us to get insights into some of the API design decisions that have been made over the years. So we're sort of starting to see patterns that we maybe wouldn't have spotted before”, notes Andrew,”It has really helped me in my role as a Site Reliability Engineer - given me lots to focus on!”

“Zuplo has really delivered. We’re an API-first company, and it's absolutely vital that our customers understand how our product works. They have to have a clear understanding of the APIs, they have to have confidence that what our documentation says those APIs do and how they work is actually how they work. So the fact we're able to tie our documentation, our specifications, and how we do deployment all together means that we can really nail that consistency. We have great performance. We have great observability. It fits with our platform.”

Check out the video interview with James and Andrew:

At Zuplo, our mission is to revolutionize API management by modernizing and democratizing the API Gateway. We have made significant progress in achieving this goal by focusing on two key objectives:

• making API gateway adoption effortless
• reducing the cost associated with its purchase and management

Historically, smaller businesses have avoided advanced API Gateway tools due to their complexity and high costs. However, Zuplo has successfully addressed these challenges, making our gateway incredibly easy to learn, adopt, and manage. By doing so, we have enabled large customers to save over 80% on the sticker price of products like Apigee and Kong, while also providing a fully-managed solution that includes hosting costs and eliminates the need to manage K8 clusters and scaling.

Introducing new Pricing for our Builder Tier​

Today, we are thrilled to announce a major update to our pricing structure, specifically for our Builder tier. Previously priced at $100 per month, the Builder tier offered customers the ability to have a custom domain—an essential feature for most API launches. In line with our mission of reducing barriers to entry, we are excited to reveal that we have lowered the price of our Builder tier by 75%, making it now available for just $25 per month.

Unbeatable Value​

That really is incredible value, including

1. Fully Managed API Key Solution: Simplify your API management with our comprehensive API key solution.

2. Extensive Out-of-the-Box Policies: Benefit from numerous pre-configured policies such as JWT authentication and rate-limiting. Explore the complete list of policies here.

3. Developer Portal: Engage your developers with an intuitive developer portal, featuring API references and integrated self-serve API key management.

4. Unlimited Deployed Environments: Enjoy the freedom to deploy your APIs in multiple environments without any restrictions.

5. Fast Deployments to Global Data Centers: With Zuplo, your API will be accessible worldwide, as we offer lightning-fast deployments to 300 data centers across the globe.

And, what's more, you can now add additional users (up to a total of 4) for just $25 per month/user and $25 for an additional custom domain. For customers that need more users, domains and an SLA, our Business tier is still aggressively priced at just $500 / month.

zuplo.com/pricing.

We can't wait to see what you build 💪.

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"Zuplo has really delivered. We’re an API-first company... We have great performance. We have great observability. It fits with our platform.” - James World, System Architect at Imburse

Imburse Payments are a leading payments middleware provider for the insurance market. As an API-first company, their choice of API gateway is a critical decision. Recently, I got to interview James World, System Architect, and (Andrew Withers, SRE at Imburse)[https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-withers-3a651096/], about their decision-making process that led to them going live with Zuplo.

Imburse primarily used Microsoft Azure as their cloud and hosting provider and so their default choice is to use services provided by Microsoft, in this case, they looked at Azure API Management (founded by me, Zuplo’s CEO when I worked at Microsoft) but decided that Zuplo was a better fit for their needs.

They highlighted several motivations for them in looking for a gateway and making the final decision to use Zuplo. They have a modern, microservice-based architecture and had been using the common approach of routing requests based on embedded Kubernetes features, but realized it was time to “up their game” and add rate-limiting and a cleaner, more consistent way of implementing security, authentication, and observability.

James and team are passionate about the developer workflow and invest heavily in having an optimum workflow that supports their agile approach. “We're able to make changes very quickly. And so we've always taken the approach of having an automated deployment pipeline, from that first push all the way through to automated testing and getting things into production. Our goal is that we are able to get changes into production, ideally within minutes.” said James, “If the tool can't support that goal, then we don't like it.”.

Andrew added, “It’s very important for us to follow a GitOps approach to deployment. We tried to use Azure API Management, and it was far more challenging than it needed to be — most gateways just don’t lend themselves well to this approach. When we saw how Zuplo worked and how clean it would be, it was a bit of a blessing.”

Imburse are also making heavy use of Zuplo’s native programmability — “I was able to put together prototypes of custom policies and custom rate-limiting algorithms and test them in literally minutes.” notes Andrew. “We actually have three levels of rate-limiting now - a custom rate limiter for users who are coming in through an authenticated flow where we can identify the organization that they work for. A fallback for a different type of authenticated user, and then we have another fallback for IP-based rate limiting. So even our anonymous methods are being rate limited now.”

They also care deeply about observability, and it was important that their chosen solution would work well with their preferred observability platform — Datadog.

“We wanted a holistic view of our estate, and we didn’t have that before Zuplo. if we wanted to look at calls coming into different parts of the system, we would have to go into individual services and go query those individually. By sort of introducing Zuplo and adding in the Datadog plugin, we were then able to create views that showed us all requests across all APIs in one view, which was really powerful. Really important. It allows us to very quickly pinpoint errors and spot problems as they're happening. It also allows us to get insights into some of the API design decisions that have been made over the years. So we're sort of starting to see patterns that we maybe wouldn't have spotted before”, notes Andrew,”It has really helped me in my role as a Site Reliability Engineer - given me lots to focus on!”

“Zuplo has really delivered. We’re an API-first company, and it's absolutely vital that our customers understand how our product works. They have to have a clear understanding of the APIs, they have to have confidence that what our documentation says those APIs do and how they work is actually how they work. So the fact we're able to tie our documentation, our specifications, and how we do deployment all together means that we can really nail that consistency. We have great performance. We have great observability. It fits with our platform.”

Check out the video interview with James and Andrew: