Dispatch

Dispatch is an API Gateway written in Java which aims to be simple, lightweight, and extensible.

Dispatch uses Jetty and Virtual Threads.

Starting the server

 mvn clean compile exec:java

Deploying

You can build a single JAR executable with

mvn package

Concepts

Routes

Backends

Policies

Config

Dispatch uses a YAML-based configuration format based on routes, backends, and policies.

routes:
    method: 'GET'
    path: '/v1/hello/{name}'
    backend:
      - type: static
        responseCode: 200
        responseBody: 'Hello, World!'
    policies:
      - name: rate-limit

Benchmarking

echo "GET http://localhost:8080/" | vegeta attack -duration=30s -rate=1000 -output=results.bin && cat results.bin | vegeta plot --title="Load Test Results" > load-test