Akamai API Gateway vs. frends eiPaaS by HiQ

Our well suited scenario is when working with high-traffic APIs. Akamai API Gateway's scalability and performance optimisation capabilities provide effective handling of huge volumes of API calls, guaranteeing users' best possible experience. One less appropriate scenario is that the price of Akamai API Gateway may be too high for organisations on a tight budget, particularly if they don't need all of the platform's capabilities.

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Hybrid Integrations: Organizations operating with a combination of on-premises and cloud applications will find frends particularly valuable. Its hybrid integration capabilities ensure seamless data flow between these diverse environments. Both for scheduled integrations that are triggered regularly or for event and API-based integrations. High volume of simple integrations: the pricing model is not tied to the number of integrations like in many competing products.

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• Graphically representation in GraphQL
• Scaling system
• DevOps management

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• It has been very stable and reliable over time
• The developer tools are simple to use
• It offers out of the box tasks/activities for typical routine tasks

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• Improvements required to real-time monitoring tools, like more detailed alerting settings and advanced analytics dashboards, could offer more insight into API performance and security breaches.
• For less experienced users, setting up advanced security rules or personalising authentication procedures might be difficult and require deep technical expertise.
• Although it works well with a range of backend systems and protocols, it could be helpful to offer additional pre-configured connectors or easier integration choices for widely used services and platforms.

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• The recently renewed user interface has not been as clear as the previous version
• Sometimes the performance or capacity has been at limits with more complex integrations

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Akamai [API Gateway] helps better in terms of representation of graphQL and its consumption in monitoring system making a package for deployment speed with monitoring and scaling application with all services and utilizing most of a system without much knowledge of other aspects. Also, [a] user-friendly system helps people to handle [the] system with necessary options

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frends does not have as broad functionality but it's lightweight and easy to use and has enough features for most integration needs. For example the frends API Management exists but it does not offer lot of options. frends might not be the choice for the largest enterprises but for small and mid sized organizations it does everything you will probably need. They have also recently improved their training materials to help new developers get on board.

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• Akamai API Gateway can reduce risk as well as save money by preventing expensive data breaches, compliance violations, and damage to reputation by improving API security and reducing risks.
• Akamai API Gateway helps increase developer productivity, shorten API development cycles, and allow quicker time-to-market for new products and services with its developer-friendly tools, documentation, and sandbox environments.
• One negative aspect is that advanced security policies or integration setup and configuration can require special knowledge and resources, which can extend the implementation period and price.

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• Pricing model suites us very well as it is not tied to number of integrations or users. It's much more economic than most well-known competitors
• The stability of the service is crucial and has served as well. We run hundreds of processes on the platform daily and they are really important for other operations.

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