Case Study: Neo4j scales internal APIs and simplifies authentication with KrakenD

Neo4j scales internal APIs in 9 months with KrakenD

Neo4j, the leader in graph database and analytics, faced a challenge in taming the chaos of its rapidly multiplying internal APIs. The complexity of managing secure and scalable access across development teams had become unsustainable with their existing inflexible gateway. They required a lightweight, extensible, and enterprise-grade north-south API architecture, which led them to the vendor KrakenD and its API Gateway.

The solution implemented by KrakenD provided a declarative configuration and a custom plugin model that integrated with Neo4j's auth service to dynamically issue tokens. This created a scalable and observable backbone for their internal API infrastructure. After nine months in production, the KrakenD deployment proved to be a stable and bottleneck-free success, scaling cleanly and leading Neo4j to evaluate it for replacing their public-facing gateway.

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