Zilla

About Zilla

An API gateway built for event-driven architectures and streaming. Zilla natively supports Kafka, SSE, WebSocket, MQTT, and HTTP protocols, enabling seamless integration between REST/GraphQL clients and event-driven backends.

Key Features

• 1Event-native API gateway built for Kafka-based architectures
• 2Exposes Kafka topics as REST, SSE, gRPC, and MQTT endpoints
• 3Protocol translation between HTTP and Kafka without custom code
• 4Fan-out and fan-in patterns for multi-consumer topic access
• 5Schema registry integration for Avro and Protobuf message validation

How Python Data Engineers Use Zilla

Python data engineers use Zilla to give non-Kafka consumers HTTP-based access to Kafka data — a Python REST client can read from or write to a Kafka topic without the Kafka client library. This simplifies event-driven microservice architectures where lightweight Python services need to participate in a Kafka-based pipeline without managing consumer group offsets.