At Mashape, we’ve been building a new product, APIAnalytics, to let anyone easily track and monitor anything related to HTTP in their applications. To be successful, it needs to be extremely easy to plug any application into it. There’s many ways to achieve that with as little friction as possible, such as agents and libraries for every popular language, but for now let’s talk about HTTP proxies.
Some of our requirements for HARchiver, our official lightweight proxy for APIAnalytics are:
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No dependencies
Sub-millisecond latency
Blazing®™ Fast©
100% reliable
Design decisions
We’re going to be…
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