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Kong discourages modern microservice architecture, outrageously priced
What do you like best about the product?
Built on OpenResty, with straightforward Kubernetes resource definition of routes. The documentation was good as well, and there are free plugins and an open source variant of Kong to get you locked in before you realize the need to switch to another provider.
What do you dislike about the product?
They are dropping their support for Alpine-based images, and their Ubuntu base image brings about too large an attack surface. So you have to build Kong yourself, but the Enterprise Gateway product adds closed source modifications so it's impossible to get a secure build. Also, you have to go with enterprise for FIPS, which is reasonable if it wasn't prohibitively priced. They charge for every separate microservice TIMES every environment, including QA or trial environments. Basically, this makes them implicitly discourage companies from decoupling their enterprise application into separate services.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reverse proxy with path-based routing. Self-hostable without request or response size or latency restrictions. Extensible for custom logic. Controllable with Kubernetes resources.
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One of the Best API Gateway I have ever used!
What do you like best about the product?
Portabie, scalable and open source with easy to use interface and implement in a microservice based architecture. We have been using it for a year without any problems.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Kong API documentation is quite difficult to understand and more user friendly tutorials or documentation could be helpful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
HA Routing and security for micro-services.
Amazing API
What do you like best about the product?
the intuitive way to register apps and routes
What do you dislike about the product?
it does not handle good the connections to the databse
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
authorization and authentication
Fast reliable and flexible..
What do you like best about the product?
I love using the Kong API gateway because it allows to make secure connections. It has rich plugin ecosystem and offers a wide range of plugins for authentication.
What do you dislike about the product?
Limited GUI interface though not a deal breaker.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helps me easily configure my services. Quick customer support really helps.
Increase speed to connect market with kong connect
What do you like best about the product?
Grow faster and securely with kong trusted api management platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
They do not offer native functionality to generate apis automatically.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It make faster api write up.
Great product
What do you like best about the product?
I believe the community behind Kong is amazing
What do you dislike about the product?
When reading the documentation I believe it lacks in depth
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
it has helped bulding API quickly when compared to other options
KONG Integration
What do you like best about the product?
From my point of view, it was quite ease to implement and integrate it in our project
What do you dislike about the product?
Optimize the documentation because it's quite frustrating
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Integration api gateway in our kubernetes clusters
Cloud Agnostic API Gateway
What do you like best about the product?
It's a cloud agnostic API Gateway. For a multi-cloud enviornment i.e. where API endpoints can be hosted in multiple cloud providers like AWS or Azure, Kong can be used without dependency on a specific cloud provider..
What do you dislike about the product?
The Admin GUI cannot be used in the YAML config format, it's only possible if the PostGres DB is used.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong solved our Authentication problem. We used JWT token plugin of kong for autetication purpose of 3rd party API clients.
Using Kong Gateway at a Bank
What do you like best about the product?
Upsides:
Simplified API management (different country clusters)
Robust security features (Introspection Plugin)
Scalability and performance of DB-less mode
Simplified API management (different country clusters)
Robust security features (Introspection Plugin)
Scalability and performance of DB-less mode
What do you dislike about the product?
Downsides:
Steep learning curve for decalrative configuration as well as plugin usages
Limited documentation in some areas especially releated to plugins
Occasional stability issues with updates (version upgrade)
Steep learning curve for decalrative configuration as well as plugin usages
Limited documentation in some areas especially releated to plugins
Occasional stability issues with updates (version upgrade)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I feel that in the context of my work, Kong API solves and improves the below key areas
API Management: Simplifying the management of APIs, making it easier to control access, monitor usage, and ensure security compliance.
Security Enhancement: Providing robust security features like authentication, authorization, and rate limiting, which are crucial for safeguarding sensitive banking data and transactions.
Scalability: Enabling seamless scaling of API infrastructure to handle increasing loads and accommodate growth in customer interactions and transactions.
Interoperability: Facilitating integration between various banking systems and applications, ensuring smooth communication and interoperability across the bank's ecosystem.
Performance Optimization: Improving the performance of APIs by caching responses, reducing latency, and optimizing traffic routing, thereby enhancing the overall user experience for both customers and internal users.
API Management: Simplifying the management of APIs, making it easier to control access, monitor usage, and ensure security compliance.
Security Enhancement: Providing robust security features like authentication, authorization, and rate limiting, which are crucial for safeguarding sensitive banking data and transactions.
Scalability: Enabling seamless scaling of API infrastructure to handle increasing loads and accommodate growth in customer interactions and transactions.
Interoperability: Facilitating integration between various banking systems and applications, ensuring smooth communication and interoperability across the bank's ecosystem.
Performance Optimization: Improving the performance of APIs by caching responses, reducing latency, and optimizing traffic routing, thereby enhancing the overall user experience for both customers and internal users.
Great for proxy apis
What do you like best about the product?
Its great option to use kong when the requirement is to integrate apis which is just pass through which act as a proxy api.
What do you dislike about the product?
Orchestraction capability is quite difficult to integrate apis
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Its ui based integration which acts as a proxy in which no orchestarion is required and its very fastest way to develop such apis
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