Open Source API Gateway KrakenD Becomes Linux Foundation Project
KrakenD framework becomes the Lura Project and gets home at Linux Foundation where it will be the only enterprise-grade API Gateway hosted in a neutral, open forum
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced it is hosting the Lura Project, formerly the KrakenD open source project. Lura is a framework for building Application Programming Interfaces (API) Gateways that goes beyond simple reverse proxy, functioning as an aggregator for many microservices and is a declarative tool for creating endpoints.
The German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (
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1 for InsuranceTechs seeking authorization from the German regulator.
2 The news comes after a tumultuous year for InsuranceTechs in Germany and indeed worldwide, with investment plummeting in Q1 of 2020
3 before reaching a record high of US$7.1 billion by the end of the year.
4 Meanwhile, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (
EIOPA) published a consultation paper on open insurance from a pan-European perspective.
5 This consultation gives hope there could be an innovation-friendly European InsuranceTech regulation in the near future.
InsurTech is a term used to describe “young and tech-savvy companies”
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