Yahoo! Japan Accelerates Service Development with Kong

技术

应用基础设施与中间件 - API 集成与管理
平台即服务 (PaaS) - 连接平台

适用行业

电信

适用功能

商业运营

服务

软件设计与工程服务
系统集成

挑战

Yahoo! Japan Corporation offers more than 100 services, including search engine, auction, news, weather, sport, email and shopping. Yahoo! Japan is the undisputed market leader in terms of page views with more than 70 billion each month. To maintain market leadership, Yahoo! Japan began transitioning towards microservices to accelerate service development and deployment. Consequently, Yahoo! Japan needed a new API platform to centralize its portfolio of APIs and to improve the security, availability and performance of its services. “We moved rapidly towards microservices over the past few years, and we needed to centralize our APIs,” said Kanaderu Fukuda, senior manager of the Computing Platform Department at Yahoo! Japan. “We began looking into API gateway products, and after comparing several products, decided to use Kong.”

关于客户

Yahoo! Japan Corporation is a leading internet company in Japan that offers more than 100 services, including a search engine, auction, news, weather, sport, email, and shopping. The company is the undisputed market leader in terms of page views, with more than 70 billion each month. To maintain its market leadership, Yahoo! Japan is constantly innovating and improving its services. The company has been transitioning towards microservices to accelerate service development and deployment. This transition necessitated a new API platform to centralize its portfolio of APIs and to improve the security, availability, and performance of its services.

解决方案

Yahoo! Japan chose Kong as their API gateway to centralize their portfolio of APIs. Kong's high-performance platform was ideal for managing APIs across a modern architecture. With Kong, Yahoo! Japan was able to centralize authentication and authorization functionalities, eliminating redundant code writing for each API and saving several hours of work. The centralization also enabled Yahoo! Japan to expose its APIs via Kong for discovery, making it easy for developers to find and call APIs. As part of its testing process, Yahoo! Japan uses Kong’s canary release capabilities to reduce the risk of introducing new software into production. With canary releases, Yahoo! Japan slowly rolls out its changes to a small subset of users, providing the time to evaluate potential issues before rolling it out fully in production.

运营影响

Significantly improved operations and developer productivity, saving hundreds of hours in writing code
Centralized the authentication and authorization functionalities
Enabled circuit breaker and canary release capabilities

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