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Excellent OpenSource API Gateway
What do you like best about the product?
The project is very well documented. I like the fact that Mashape released the API as an Open Source product some other could benefit from it. It's also a very valuable addition to the API ecosystem.
What do you dislike about the product?
Kong lacks a User Interface which I think might speed up the process of getting familiar with Kong. It will makes sense far more intuitive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were looking for an API Gateway solution which provided:
- Flexibility (we have more than two sources of users)
- Performance
- Flexibility (we have more than two sources of users)
- Performance
Recommendations to others considering the product:
You should consider evaluating other API Gateway solutions (like Tyk) before moving ahead with Kong. Also keep in mind that should you ever need to develop a plugin of your own, it needs to be implemented in LUA.
Evaluated Kong for API management for microservices
What do you like best about the product?
Open source nature.
Plugin approach and available built in plugins that cover the most of the basic necessities.
Great community support. Questng are being answered.
Easily extensible using more plugins.
Plugin approach and available built in plugins that cover the most of the basic necessities.
Great community support. Questng are being answered.
Easily extensible using more plugins.
What do you dislike about the product?
Need Better built-in metrics plugin.
Can use only Cassandra as backend.
No built-in UI for non-programmers to access admin UI - For onboarding clients, APIs etc.
Can use only Cassandra as backend.
No built-in UI for non-programmers to access admin UI - For onboarding clients, APIs etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Implement security, throttling etc for our Microservices suite.
Realized benefits in terms of onboarding initial set of clients with MVP feature set.
Realized benefits in terms of onboarding initial set of clients with MVP feature set.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Design your micoroservices framework with Kong in mind right from the beginning.
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