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Fast and simple
What do you like best about the product?
I like the RESTfulness and commitment to industry best practices.
What do you dislike about the product?
The environment configuration on Windows is always a challenge but I'm not sure if that is something Kong can control
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am solving the hiring gap problem mostly. It has been tough trying to find qualified developers to build out solutions so we are relying on external tools heavily now.
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Kong API Gateway Review!!
What do you like best about the product?
I've tried many API Gateways, but the best thing about Kong API Gateway is it's very flexible, highly customizable, and easy to use. It is very important to have a scalable API Gateway and Kong API Gateway really good at it.
What do you dislike about the product?
we are using Kong API Gateway for the last 2 months and I haven't found any negative things to point out.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong API Gateway allows us to work on projects of different sizes, it's very flexible.
Kong api
What do you like best about the product?
User friendly good ui. Good structure and covers good amount of use cases
What do you dislike about the product?
Limiting of the concurrent requests. Security
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Testing more in real time scenario
King Kong Of the Gateway World
What do you like best about the product?
The way kong manages endpoints with REST API without downtime. We can easily add new endpoints and plugin rules.
Develop plugins using custom languages in your favourite language. Mine is Javascript Kdk plugin. I developed in nodejs.
Develop plugins using custom languages in your favourite language. Mine is Javascript Kdk plugin. I developed in nodejs.
What do you dislike about the product?
Plugin testing is very difficult. And Documentation is very less info.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In the microservice world, the gateway need to place to protect microservices and to manage authentication and authorization
to be placed at the gateway itself instead of microservices. Kong handles all these things itself. Or Allow custom solution with it plugin development
to be placed at the gateway itself instead of microservices. Kong handles all these things itself. Or Allow custom solution with it plugin development
Kong API review
What do you like best about the product?
Kong's Enterprise API Gateway allowed us to deliver a high performance, scalable and low-maintenance API management platform to serve our microservice ecosystem. It also helped reducing the time-to-market of new features and applications, thanks to internal tools we created that leverage Kong's RESTful admin API used to configure routes and upstream "as a service"."
What do you dislike about the product?
Kong is very customizable but requires large developer effort to reach its full potential.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong API Gateway solves critical challenges in API management, security, scalability, and monitoring, benefiting organizations by providing a robust, scalable, and secure platform for managing their APIs. This leads to improved performance, better security, simplified management, and enhanced visibility into API operations, ultimately supporting the efficient delivery of services and applications. I use this in daily basis
Manage Your API Services Solemnly
What do you like best about the product?
Kong API Gateway is helpful to manage our back-end services. I appreciate having it because it reduces cumbersome processes for us. I focus on my services in this way.
What do you dislike about the product?
I' haven't faced critical challenges with micro-services architecture. Therefore I have no idea downsides of it yet. I think current features are working very well for us.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
There are some common problems among services. They are caching requests/responses, authorization/authentication, proxy mechanisms, and so on. Kong API Gateway helps us to manage these steps in the center point.
Very Performant and feature rich API Gateway
What do you like best about the product?
Kong API Gateway is easy to install on several platforms (k8s, VM) and is very feature-rich.
Several plugins allow me to apply policies to my APIs at a global or granular level, from securing the API, request/response validation to rate limiting to name but a few.
There is a very active community which is great to see, and most plugins if not bundled with the product have been written within the community and you can add these to your Kong install pretty easily. Observability is a key component of Kong and without much trouble, you can generate and display health and traffic level metrics. Kong integrates with all your well known third party monitoring systems e.g. prometheus. grafana and ELK (plus many more - these are just the most common ones)
Several plugins allow me to apply policies to my APIs at a global or granular level, from securing the API, request/response validation to rate limiting to name but a few.
There is a very active community which is great to see, and most plugins if not bundled with the product have been written within the community and you can add these to your Kong install pretty easily. Observability is a key component of Kong and without much trouble, you can generate and display health and traffic level metrics. Kong integrates with all your well known third party monitoring systems e.g. prometheus. grafana and ELK (plus many more - these are just the most common ones)
What do you dislike about the product?
As mentioned before Kong API Gateway is easy to install and feature-rich, but I think one of Kong's negative aspects is its documentation. The documentation is not always very clear, often missing information and sometimes I have found the examples/tutorials don't work. Something I think they can improve on.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The problem solved with any API Gateway is the management of your North-South traffic and centralized governance of the policies you wish to apply. Kong API Gateway allows you to do this via plugins, either built and managed by Kong or custom plugins written by yourself or the community. This means developers can just build their APIs and not have to worry about things like authentication, authorization or even validation as this can be managed globally across all your APIs in the gateway. These policies (plugins) can then also be built into your GitOps pipelines allowing you to automate applying these policies across your API estate.
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.
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.
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