Eyal Solomon (@EyalSolomo44643) is the CEO and co-founder of Lunar, an open-source platform which bills itself as the “first reverse API gateway.” Lunar allows engineering teams to monitor, manage, and optimize API consumption. According to Eyal, it’s very easy to integrate with APIs, but difficult to keep them maintained, and there was a clear need for a generic solution to control and scale every API consumed in production. 

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In this episode we discuss:

• How most companies think their API maintenance is a unique problem

• The importance of managing API consumption in the face of the AI revolution

• Why Eyal and his team decided to open-source Lunar

• Future plans for Lunar, including the development of autonomous optimization and pre-built flows

• Eyal’s thoughts on how to start conversations with potential enterprise clients

Links:

• Lunar

People mentioned:

• Roy Gabbay (LinkedIn)