TIBCO Mashery Cloud review
December 12, 2018
TIBCO Mashery Cloud review
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Cloud Mashery
TIBCO Mashery is our core API management platform. We use it to manage our API's hosted on-premise as well in the cloud. Mashery is used across the whole organization by different teams and departments. Mashery allows us to manage access to our API's and gives us insights about how our API's are used by API consumers.
- TIBCO Mashery is a very stable platform. We run on-premise version without any major outages for more than 1.5 years.
- Hybrid deployment model of Mashery is a big plus. Traffic can be routed through local gateways or through gateways hosted on Mashery cloud.
- Mashery allows combining multiple API into packages which can be consumed by different applications. Even multiple API's can be combined into the single package and consumed by single API credentials.
- Mashery organizational model is exceptional. It allows us to limit users to manage just their API's within suborganizations. It's great as multiple DevOps teams can independently manage API by themselves without talking to central API team and it keeps them in boundary of their suborganization.
- Containerization is a big topic nowadays. Mashery has a container version for the local gateway, but there is some space for improvements. For example, docker images are too big. Mashery version 4 has also some limitations when it comes to autoscaling on Kubernetes. Version 5 should improve the situation.
- Configuration management is a bit difficult without CLI interface. Support for terraform would be nice. Better support for CICD processes would help. We solved it by implementing own CLI component on top of Admin API, but one would expect such feature out of the box.
- Some features which are present today like JWT token validation are possible only via plugins which are hard to get. Would be nice to open source them.
- Mashery allowed us to speed up significantly the process of exposing API to our partners. We are now much faster than before and that allows us to roll out new features for our consumers at a fast pace.
- Mashery also is now a highly critical component of our infrastructure and needs to be treated like that. It means ensuring proper monitoring and 24/7 support which also brings some cost.
Our selection process happened in 2016. TIBCO Mashery's easy hybrid deployment model was the reason why we decided on Mashery over Apigee. Akamai API Gateway is now a new tool on the market evolving really fast but was not available yet when we went through the selection process. Tyk is open source and evolving very fast, but 2 years back, it was not mature enough. That might have changed now.