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Kong: Super lightweight and fast API gateway solution
What do you like best about the product?
Kong API Gateway is a fantastic product that supports the process of holistic API management excellently. It's super lightweight, especially with its plugin-based approach. Their support makes the daily work of API development much easier and saves many lines of code in your applications.
In addition, I have found the support to be very competent and helpful. So far we have always received quick and appropriate answers.
In addition, I have found the support to be very competent and helpful. So far we have always received quick and appropriate answers.
What do you dislike about the product?
Overall, I have almost no criticisms. In some cases, the documentation could be more precise or more detailed. In the case of more complex architectures, the examples in the documentation could be presented more specifically.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong API Gateway establishes an additional security layer that can secure access to applications both technically and professionally. With the appropriate plugins, the development of authorization and authentication functionality is completely relieved. Kong offers excellent routing functionalities, which enable a quick exchange of API versions, or make a canary deployment possible. Last but not least, Kong's Developer Portal offers a great way to present your API specifications in a great way.
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Kong is an all around superstar at any level
What do you like best about the product?
Kong is a great solution for deploying a cloud vendor-agnostic API Gateway. You can deploy it from a container or with the native binary. I am especially fond of the leveraging the Kong Ingress Controller in K8s as I find it to be on the simplest ways to handle both Ingress and Routing with the other Kong feature as frosting on the cake.
What do you dislike about the product?
Kong's freemium model of open source can be frustrating for some, but in my opinion, it averages out in the end. You either have the internal team members on your roster to support the open-source product at enterprise scale or you leverage their team to support you at enterprise scale.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
K8's Ingress and service routing, load balancing, authorization for APIs using OIDC, rate-limiting, logging, monitoring
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Kong is a great API Gateway solution for project of all sizes
Kong is a very flexible, robust and cloud ready plattform, an excellent choice for an API Gateway.
What do you like best about the product?
The OSS base for the product is great, and the documentation is pretty good too.
What do you dislike about the product?
Plugin customization with Lua adds the need to lear a new programming language. Of course you can develop plugins with Go or JS, but the performance is not the same. I also think there could be more community involvement.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The problems includes creating an automated pipeline (based on OpenAPI and using an API-First approach) to deploy and expose APIs.
The benefits are the customizations that are possible with Lua custom plugins and the fact that Kong is very Kubernetes friendly.
The benefits are the customizations that are possible with Lua custom plugins and the fact that Kong is very Kubernetes friendly.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Start with Kong OSS and "feel" if your company needs Kong Enterprise. Also, consider using others tools from the Kong ecossystem like Insomnia and Kuma, because they have good integration with Kong API Gateway.
Fast, Secure and easy to use API....
What do you like best about the product?
API Gateway is a simple, secure, fast and next-generation API which provides ultra-low latency, high throuput,Dynamic scalability, radically extensible and CI/CD integrations.
What do you dislike about the product?
Kong API is great in many aspects since recently I started using and testing it couldn't find many flaws and those flaws I have found and easily configurable and managable.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have been using Kong API for low latency, high throughput, Architectural Freedom (This is just amazing) and Kubernetes Native API Management which has amazing benefits.
Simple Setup, Easy to configure and customise.
What do you like best about the product?
Kong API Gateway is very easy to setup, configure and customise. It has a great community support as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing specific as such. But logging features can be improved
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Centralized Authentication, Service Discovery, Security
Awesome product
What do you like best about the product?
Kong API gateway is an excellent product. It has many features that qualify it as the most trusted gateway. The thing which I like the most about this product is its beginner-friendly structure which makes it quite simple for first-timers to use it. Apart from that, the variety of features acts as a cherry on the cake.
What do you dislike about the product?
Although the API is good, it lends it down is its customer support. Dealing with connection-related issues can be cumbersome due to its poor customer service. I'd be happier if it's improved a little bit.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I personally use it to manage multiple APIs and services required in my organization. Also, after using it for a while, I love the user interface and accessibility features that the product provides to the consumer.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would recommend this product to my colleagues and ask them to use it in implementing micro-services in their startups and business ventures.
Kong API Gateway
What do you like best about the product?
The performance of the gateway and the ease at which you can configure routes and services - everything can be done via an API.
What do you dislike about the product?
The API marketplace in the developer portal needs more work to make it truly world class.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The ability to standardise and secure access to services via the gateway is the core value add it provides
Kong: Fast and Reliable API Gateway solution.
What do you like best about the product?
Kong API-Gateway is a very easy-to-use product and its plugin architecture makes it easy to create custom plug-ins.
What do you dislike about the product?
Kong currently only supports Lua and Go programming languages, but it would be better to add more languages like Python, Java etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong API Gateway is our gateway service, which handles all external requests. Main uses include regex-based routing to microservices, authentication, IP blocking, rate limiting, etc.
Kong Gateway
What do you like best about the product?
speed, performance, plugin configuration
What do you dislike about the product?
Logging and Monitoring of gateway,soap to rest conversion
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reverse proxy, request throttling,api security
Kong is stable, performant, highly configurable, well documented.
What do you like best about the product?
Love the pluggable architecture and API driven config. The never modes of operation such as DP/CP or DBLess are a big plus as well. There is a large community of users and it has really great documentation.
What do you dislike about the product?
Github issues lately pile up and have not been treated as a priority to investigate within the company.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Solid API Gateway solution for on prem and multi cloud environments.
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