Layer7 API Management Scalability

Ronald D'Souza - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Consultant for CA Southern Africa at Hyperion Holding Pty Ltd

Adding a cluster is as simple as adding a form factor of the gateway to the existing node.

Form factors could be Appliance, Docker container, or Kube Pod.

The former would take five to ten min to be part of the cluster while the latter would take one to two min to be part of the cluster.

Because of the drive to move containerization, it makes it easy to upscale or downscale the gateway based on your requirements.

The catch with containers is one license of the appliance and is equivalent to three containers which means with one license I could have 3three gateways of form factor containers giving our clients more value for their purchases and moving from a container to an appliance and vice versa could be done with either (DB backup - configuration backup or via migration utility tools - GMU, Graphman, Restman) allowing the capability to script your entire process including DR.

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MohammadImran - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy Manager at ICICIBANK Ltd

It is a scalable solution. Some of the leading banks in India have been using Layer7 API Management for a long time. Migration from Layer7 API Management to other tools that work around the area of API management happens because of the lack of support that Broadcom offers to its users.

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Aniket Karle - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Developer at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees

The product is scalable, up or down, according to your needs and there are no issues. We receive somewhere between 30,000-60,000 hits per day. 

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Layer7 API Management
March 2024
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Arpit Agarwal - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise API Architect at Al-Futtaim Group

We have not gotten far enough along to test the scalability of the product, but it was made for enterprise solutions so it should be readily scalable.  

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SM
Director IT Services at Telomeres

Layer7 API Management is highly scalable. The product is easy to scale horizontally and vertically. It has good scalability, so it's an eight out of ten.

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VK
Enterprise Integration Architect at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Scalability with Layer 7 API management depends on your server capability or, if on AKS, the AKS capacity. However, the user experience feels scattered and less developer-friendly. Different functionalities like the developer portal and policy management are in separate places, and CICD implementation involves exporting and importing code, making it less seamless. I would rate the scalability at no more than a four out of ten.

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PC
Assistant Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

API Management is scalable. We did some horizontal scaling and adopted a clustered approach, with two or three nodes behind that. We have that kind of scalability in our environment, and we have a hard drive. We're processing millions of jobs a day that are handled well with the cluster setup we have in place.

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SP
Sr. Systems Engineer at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Because we have a physical appliance, we have the capacity with us, but scalability is going to be hard. Our next strategy is for us to figure out if we can use virtual gateways instead of an appliance gateway and then scale horizontally.

As for end users, we have a lot of them. About 200,000-300,000 users have downloaded the application and use it externally. As far as maintaining here locally, it's a team of 5 people.

We are growing. I'm the main implementation architect on the support of it. Now, we have a policy development team, an enterprise architecture team and a performance testing team. Each one of them from their team lend out to us whenever we need it.

I would say we're probably 20 to 30 percent of people have been using it within our organization. We still have a lot of room to go. 

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HK
Director of Architecture at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

It's challenging at this point because the healthcare API marketplace is growing.

CA API Management has been chosen as the platform for the entire firm so now as the APIs are growing the API management product capability also has to grow. Some of the challenges we are facing is sometimes you have mainframe systems and these mainframe systems are incredibly slow to respond. Now your product has to be capable of keeping your response times open for that duration, so that's one challenge. The ability to scale up, we face that beyond 90,000 or 100,000 transactions, the product has this limitation and it cannot scale. We are seriously facing challenges around response time per transaction and our business demands .1 milliseconds of response time. However, we are seriously reaching up to 3 seconds for some of it. I think internally we have to make this serious call around leveraging CA API Management for certain kind of transactions. Maybe segregate the platform so there are different architecture strategies for it, different approaches for it and we can really achieve it but we need to tune it a lot better.

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RaviVerma1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead API Engineer at Boubyan Bank

We have four people using this solution in my company.

The solution is scalable.

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VN
Architect at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

I rate the product's scalability a seven out of ten. 

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RB
Principal Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Since the tool is on-premise, it was not scalable.

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UP
Lead Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I've been primarily utilizing the on-premises version, and it has proven to be scalable as we've added more clients. However, I haven't yet ventured into the cloud aspect, so there's potential for further exploration in that regard.

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ES
API Technical Lead at Sanlam

Up until now, we have not hit scaling issues with what we have.

It was difficult to determine the initial requirements purely because of the complexity of our business. As a federated business, each business has could opt to go their own route. Luckily for us, the adoption was very good and we had a good uptake by all the different business units.

We implement a shared infrastructure to lower costs. We are therefore very weary of what gets deployed on a gateway to avoid impacting the bigger business. I assume purely from a control point some business units might want to adopt their own gateways and not based on performance.

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MJ
Lead Architect at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Scalability is fine for what we are doing.

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it_user581829 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architecture / Digital Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

There were scalability issues in Amazon AWS, but not in the private data center.

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AT
GM - Head of Digital Transformation at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We didn't take it to scale, but from what I've read and from the literature that was provided to me, it seems that it's built for large transactional orders.

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JK
Senior Director IAM Security Engineering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

In terms of scalability, we haven't encountered any issues. Scalability has been something that we're starting to explore a little bit more now - automated scalability - responding to increases in capacity in the environment. But we haven't had any issues, and I don't necessarily anticipate any issues. CA provides certain containerized versions of their components that are very easy to deploy and scale.

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it_user881124 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We have not experienced any issues with scalability.

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YH
Software Developer III at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Layer7 API Management is scalable.

We have two people in my company that uses this solution. We are will need to train more people.

We are attempting to expand usage but because we cannot find resources, we will try to change to some other product. We were using it for a long time. It's a little difficult to transfer every feature that we have, but we are still open to finding another product, such as NGINX. We are on the POC of NGINX, but it keeps changing. The organization is trying to stop using this product as we have a lack of resources, but right now we found that some of the features cannot transform easily. Then we want to expand, I'm confused as well about what we are doing.

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JV
Senior System Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Layer7 API Management is a scalable solution.

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it_user558072 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Middleware Manager at a wellness & fitness company with 10,001+ employees

On the scalability perspective, the product has no issues. It's able to scale out horizontally and vertically and has posed no problem for us. We have a pretty large implementation.

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it_user17886 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, IT Security & IT Office of the CIO at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's not been an issue.

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it_user882708 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Development - Alliances and Partnerships at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I have never had any issues with scalability.

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PB
Computer Scientist at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

The scalability is always an issue, as we cannot add gateways on the fly because there are a lot of moving parts; endpoint connectivity is one of them. If we add more nodes then the rate-limiting feature is affected. This kind of gateway always has the scalability issue. But, I think CA is coming up with its Microgateway, which is in Beta. If they stabilize their Microgateway platform, we could do very well in terms of scalability.

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it_user778875 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Software Developer at United Services Automobile Association

The scalability has been good. We haven't had to scale up a whole lot, even with all the extra transactions we're running through it. We're in the area of about 2 and 1/2 million OAuth tokens issued per hour, and it's performing fine with that.

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it_user572838 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, .Net And Mobile Applications Development at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's definitely a scalable solution, so you can create clusters in production. What we've done is, we got a cluster on our main data center, and then we've got one in our backup data center. Then we can add on to that as we need to, and use the load balancing functionality to scale it indefinitely, as much as we need for our load.

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it_user479754 - PeerSpot reviewer
Founding Partner - Principal at Vanick Digital

It's enterprise class software. It gives you the ability to scale and load balance, and based on how the technology is being managed today using a database as an underlying component that allows you to synchronize multiple gateways to the database. And then the ability to cluster the data technology. It can scale as much as you need to scale.

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SP
Sr. Systems Engineer at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I did encounter scalability issues. I wish they could extend the MySQL replication to multiple nodes.

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it_user348429 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - API Management at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Because it’s a clustered environment, we can scale horizontally as many as we need to go. So far two production gateways that are in a cluster and they’re processing transactions for one of our APIs at 30 calls a second and there’s barely a blip on CPU.

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it_user482193 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Manager - Delivery, Enterprise & Platform Architect at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

Scalability is really good and they could do an average transaction size of probably 50-100KB with around 20,000 transactions per second, which is really impressive. Initially we thought we needed many licenses, but we ended up using only one part of the licenses.

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GS
Technical Director at SoftPro

The scalability is good.

When it comes to supporting a large number of APIs or transactions, the performance is not bad, because it is in staging. We have not moved it to production.

Our client's environment has four CA API Gateways.

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it_user778806 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at Clarity Iq Inc

In my use case, I've not dealt with the type of data that usually responds to the scalability issue. Generally, when people ask that question, they're talking about scalability of hits, scalability of users. Where, all of a sudden now, you have tens of thousands of records happening within a very short period of time - will this scale? I don't have tens of thousands of records happening in split seconds. However, I do know that the product's been tested to that and has demonstrated outstanding scalability results in that regard.

There are other aspects of scalability. You might consider how well can I bring on new customers, how well can I scale my development team, how well can I handle additional API integration. Because of the efficiency of the product actually doing that, pulling data from disparate sources, and integrating it into the response format that I want, that my customer demands, that's so easy. It's 10 times, 40 times, 100 times faster than the way we used to do it, and that makes it very scalable.

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it_user778812 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Principal at FedEx Corporation

We have seen that it can scale both vertically and horizontally. 

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it_user779280 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager Global Devops at Encore Capital Group
it_user778716 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We're relatively new to this so I don't think we're taxing the capacity of our gateway at all. In the business that we're in, I don't think that we're going to get to huge volumes anyways. Our goal is to leverage it more. So far, that hasn't been an issue at all.

The biggest thing for us would be that currently it is deployed in one region. We're a global company, so that technically is a little bit of a constraint for us. We haven't been able to deploy more gateways in other regions mainly due to cost of licensing.

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it_user558081 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Solutions Architect at Logisticare

Their capacity is a lot bigger than we are. We haven't reached a limit or even challenged it yet.

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it_user558057 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Software Engineer at a wellness & fitness company with 501-1,000 employees

The good thing about McCloud being on AWS is scalability which you get by default. Hence, you don't have to worry about how you want to manage your infrastructure. By default, it will look at your load and there are some alarms set on that and then it will act. When you see the peak, it automatically scales to a new instance and when the load is too low, it will kill that new instance that it has created. AWS will help us with that.

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it_user558432 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Digital at Banco Votorantim

It is perfect on scalability. Today, I can say we are performing at a rate of five million requests, or five million transactions, per day using this platform.

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SM
CEO at Next Generation Technocom Pvt Ltd

We can create multiple gateways using the product. It has good scalability. It is suitable for enterprise customers who have many APIs and microservices.

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Stefan Zivanovic - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Consultant at CyberGate Dfenese

We have 12 Layer7 API Management users in our organization.

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VK
Senior Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The scalability depends on configuration, but if that is correct, then the scalability is good.

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AK
Layer7 API Developer at Allied Globetech

Scalability is a bit tough if it is a production environment. If you are planning to scale it and increase the number of servers within one to two years, that can be challenging. Up until now, if I have installed four servers, I haven't been given requirements to add more than that.

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it_user778611 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Lead Engineer at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees

It is all docker containers. So, it seems to be pretty good.

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it_user778536 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Associate at a financial services firm

We do not use it on a massive scale at this point, so it's pretty good.

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it_user631233 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP Of IT Development at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The CA API Gateway solution is highly scalable. It is very easy to add more nodes to the cluster, which increases the processing power.

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it_user558405 - PeerSpot reviewer
Programmer Analyst at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

We began with just one appliance. Then, as our needs grew, we put in a load balancer. It had multiple VMs talking together, which was fairly easy to do and we never had a problem with that either. From time to time, when we needed to take one server out of the load, it was an easy process; the other servers automatically absorbed the workload. That's a benefit for us.

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it_user558021 - PeerSpot reviewer
API Champion at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Scalability is unmatched. Since it is cloud and AWS backed, if we need more power, we just call it up and it's pretty quick.

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it_user558360 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Group Technology at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did our own test to verify scalability and found it was quite scalable. We had no issues.

We had done a load test on the application on our own and it was able to scale to a significant number of transactions per second. Based on our architecture and solution that we have, we are comfortable with the level of volume that it can handle.

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it_user497217 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President of API Management Division at a tech company with 51-200 employees

The CA product has outstanding scalability built-in via their “cluster” concept. The Gateways are organized into clusters and adding a new Gateway into an existing cluster is very simple and does not require an admin to configure the newly added Gateway nor manually deploy policy to it; it is all automatic. Stability of the Gateway is rock-solid so long as you follow CA’s best-practices guidelines when provisioning and configuring servers. We have seen sporadic performance issues when clients’ IT Operations team did not follow the guidelines but these were easily remedied by updating VMware configurations to match CA’s recommendations. DRS configuration is an example of this. One must also pay attention to log and audit data as these can grow fast with the high transaction counts of today’s API utilizations. Implementing a strategy to archive this data is important. We very often forward this data into Splunk to provide our clients with a single source for API analytics.

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it_user343143 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP, EIM Data Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's scaled just fine.

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it_user880812 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Analyst at Infosys Technologies Ltd

Scalability is really good because it's very easy to create new users. It's really good.

There are 43 people using CA. We will use CA to its maximum capacity. It has become very popular in my office.

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it_user797973 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP Enterprise Solutions - Financial Services at Samsung

The solution is already supporting about five and a half million consumers in South Korea, so it is scalable. Today, there is a server element to that solution. From the client's side, it is SDK-based, but there is a server element. We can support about two million users on each server, then you can nest servers together. 

We have no concerns about scalability at this point.

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AM
Business development manager at Sec4you
BC
IT / Enterprise Architect, IT Consultant at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

The organization is connected through Layer7. It is just there in between the applications, so there are no end users. It is maintained by a very limited staff and I think that is a really nice thing about it. There are just three people using it in the sense that they are acting as operators. You can say that one person is doing it full time, the other two are doing it incidentally and being back up to the main role. This limited team is made up of one dedicated admin and the other two are architects. The integration architects do internal integration consultancy. But they also act as a backup for the admin.  

Layer7 is fully rolled out so there are no plans to further expand usage. We cannot go any further.  

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AM
Business development manager at Sec4you

I have never had any concerns in regards to the scalability of the solution as it is able to handle more than 25,000 transactions per gate. We currently have seventy people working with the solution but for one simple gate implementation, only one engineer/technician is required.

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VK
Senior Technology Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

No issues with scalability.

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it_user882714 - PeerSpot reviewer
Experts in Integration Models at a consultancy with 5,001-10,000 employees

There is no real problem. However, as the number of instances increases, its complexity of installation increases if you do not use the OVA.

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it_user639678 - PeerSpot reviewer
OSS Enterprise Architect

Scalabillity, like most things, is in the hands of your own business to implement. The gateway is flexible and can be scaled to the level you see fit. Be aware though, verbos logging will bring your platform down in seconds, so only use in non-production environments.

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it_user484275 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Manager - Technology Governance and Architecture at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

We are able to scale both horizontal and vertically, so we have an internal user base as well as external user base and we are able to provision both for those user needs. We are able to even segment it. One of the features that we like the most is the ability to have a form of servers which provide that scalability and un-scalability at the same time we being able to curve out a part of it exclusively for internal users as well as for external users, but if time demands we can bring that together to scale it. That’s the part which really added a lot more value to the business.

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it_user351327 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We' have no issues with scalability.

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SW
Automation Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

It's been working for us, from a scalability perspective. It's implemented within a central group, so there are just a couple of roles that run it. The APIs we host are stable.

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it_user778623 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at DXC Technologie

The scalability has been good. Now we have exposed the APIs, we have a four-node cluster of API Gateways in production. It's been scaling out well for us. I haven't had any issue yet.

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SC
Cyber Security Advisor

We are still doing a PSA, so we will have to see how it scales once we ramp up volume and we roll out to the production with real life traffic.

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it_user558363 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Information Technology - Integration Technology Engineering at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

We haven't had any scalability problems. I don't know how far it can be scaled. We are a mid-sized company.

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SG
student at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The product does not scale the way cloud-native architecture does.

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it_user778641 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineer at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Scalability is very good.

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it_user701361 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
it_user345549 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Mobile/Web Solution Delivery Manager at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We've just started so there's not a lot of traffic yet.

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it_user399735 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Scalability performance has always been an issue. It behaves slowly when communicating with Windows-based servers (e.g., F5 load balancer or DB server, as compared to when communicating with a UNIX server.)

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it_user674037 - PeerSpot reviewer
Transformation and Change Management Leader at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees
it_user778770 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect

Scalability is very good.

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it_user635433 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a tech company with 201-500 employees

We did not encounter any issues with scalability.

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it_user353421 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Analyst at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We can see that it will scale very easily as well. It handles traffic efficiently, no hiccups there, and we're happy with it.

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it_user898710 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

CA API Management is okay when it comes to supporting a large number of APIs or large number of transactions. It has high availability. With the help of a load balancer, we distribute the load among all the API Gateways. In this way, we provide high-availability for all the API Gateways.

We have scaled the product out to different countries, like China and Australia.

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AS
Practice Lead at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We have not had any issues with scalability.

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it_user352995 - PeerSpot reviewer
Expert Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We're exposing probably fifty different products externally. We've got thousands of requests, probably, per hour that come through. It's a lot of batched products -- people will run a job and it's sending a lot of things. We have a lot of traffic. The gateway itself has been stable. Downtime has usually been something like the network equipment around the gateway itself, but the gateway itself has been fairly stable.

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SK
Technical Consultant at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

I did not have any issues with scalability.

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it_user778503 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The scalability has been great for us. We have consumers that range from 10 to 20 users upwards to 1000s of users. Thus, it scales really well. It does a lot of load balancing and other nice, little technical tricks that help smooth out requests which come in.

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it_user778995 - PeerSpot reviewer
Integration Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

As mentioned, that's one of the great features, the scalability. We were able to scale up in incidences as needed, and scale down. So again, completely flexible. Top-rate, from the scalability point of view.

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it_user558069 - PeerSpot reviewer
Integration Platform Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

We're only receiving 200,000 calls a day at the moment, and we're increasing that to about 1,000,000 calls a day, which is a lot of traffic compared to some customers but I'm sure it's not much compared to others. The performance is fine.

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it_user607752 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant
it_user637836 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Integration Developer I at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

There were no scalability issues.

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it_user778983 - PeerSpot reviewer
Prof IT System at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Scalability is good. With the new/future version of the gateway, we can easily scale up or scale down the gateway instance in the Docker container.

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it_user667791 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Infrastructure Architect with 11-50 employees

From an API Portal 4.1 perspective, I encountered scalability issues. They confirmed that they are working on it and in the very near future, it will be available.

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it_user502011 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Java Developer/ Solution Architect at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Not really, Performance wise it is quite competitive .

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it_user558333 - PeerSpot reviewer
Leads System Engineer at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

I think it scales well. We've got a cluster going and we can increase the size if we have to so it works out well.

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RS
Consultor de segurança at a tech company with 1-10 employees

We don't have any problems with scalability. We have only a few customers that have deployed it. We only use it for a total of 4 clients. We don't use it in all of our projects. We work with other technology. 

Our final customer maintains the CA API Management installation and only needs our contractors to make other new improvements.

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it_user760710 - PeerSpot reviewer
Development Manager API Management - Digital Technology Services at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Cost and licencing model restrictive for auto scaling.

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it_user351495 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Engineer (R&D for VoIP, Networking and P2P) at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We introduced it on triad, but we haven’t tested the scalability of it yet. We'll know more in the coming weeks as we test the system.

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it_user882711 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues with scalability.

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Buyer's Guide
Layer7 API Management
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Layer7 API Management. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.