Buf provides tools for managing the entire API lifecycle, focusing on integration, monitoring, and version control. This enables companies to minimize operational inefficiencies and accelerate their development cycles, essential for businesses that depend on APIs.
Funding
$93.5M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Managing APIs throughout their lifecycle can be inefficient, especially for businesses heavily reliant on them. Inconsistent API design, lack of compatibility checks, and cumbersome code generation processes lead to operational overhead and slower development cycles.
Solution
Buf provides a suite of tools designed to streamline the entire API lifecycle, focusing on schema management, validation, and code generation using Protocol Buffers. The Buf CLI offers linting, breaking change detection, formatting, and generation capabilities, ensuring API consistency and compatibility. The Buf Schema Registry (BSR) serves as a centralized hub for managing Protobuf APIs, offering dependency management and a single source of truth for Protobuf assets. Additionally, Bufstream provides a Kafka-compatible streaming data platform that guarantees data quality and reduces cloud storage costs by leveraging object storage and schema validation.
Target Audience
The primary audience includes enterprises and startups that rely on Protobuf APIs and seek to improve API governance, reduce development costs, and ensure data quality across their systems.
Features
- **Buf CLI:** Lints, detects breaking changes, formats, and generates code from Protobuf schemas.
- **Buf Schema Registry (BSR):** Centralized registry for Protobuf APIs with dependency management and remote plugin support.
- **Bufstream:** Kafka-compatible streaming data platform with schema enforcement and object storage integration.
- **Schema Validation:** Enforces data quality at the source, rejecting non-compliant data.
- **Breaking Change Detection:** Ensures API compatibility at the source code or wire level.
- **Automatic File Discovery:** Automatically identifies `.proto` files based on build configuration.
- **Configurable Error Formats:** Supports various output formats, including JSON, MSVS, JUnit, and GitHub Actions.
- **Editor Integration:** Provides linting integrations for Vim, Visual Studio Code, and JetBrains IDEs.
- **Universal Input Targeting:** Supports linting and breaking change detection against local files, tarballs, ZIP files, Git repositories, and pre-built image files.
- **High-Speed Compilation:** Utilizes all available cores for fast Protobuf compilation.
- **Field-level RBAC:** Enforces fine-grained access controls at the field level.