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Kong powerful API management service
What do you like best about the product?
Kong can scale to the developer and user needs as applications grow. Although a bit of a learning curve can be expected, this outweighs the benefits of a flexible API solution.
What do you dislike about the product?
Kong has a learning curve if you are not familiar with API management and solutions. Also the use of Lua for plugin integration could be improved upon by provided developers the programming language of choice, such as Go or Javascript.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong allows secure API endoints to provide developers an interface to protected data either residing in the cloud or onPrem. This was useful while slowly migrating new applications and also provided a solution to legacy applications.
Kong API has made our project a lot easier
What do you like best about the product?
The smooth integration and seamless usability
What do you dislike about the product?
Initial phases were challenging to get used to it
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have multiple customers having multiple APIs which needs to be integrated. Kong helped us by integrating all of them
What we needed in a tool but with a little more.
What do you like best about the product?
AWS integration with many cloud tools...
What do you dislike about the product?
The setup was a bit difficult at times..
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Datacenter to AWS API gateway without the high bandwidth cost.
I find it something of great help to simplify my application development enormously
What do you like best about the product?
The security, confidence and practicality that Kong gives me when managing my APIs in a simple and efficient way is a great point in its favor that this application has, its interface has a fairly intuitive design which allows me to navigate through everything the system without major problem, and the fact that it is also a responsive application is of great help to me to access the information from my mobile phone without major problems, the main dashboard shows me in a fairly summarized way all the data I need to perform my activities in a much simpler and more efficient way, in terms of performance the application is quite good, its customer service team provides a fairly complete service and in a fairly fast way, solving in a short period of time any possible error that could be presented
What do you dislike about the product?
Being objective, there is nothing I can complain about Kong, it seems to me that everything works perfectly and without any inconvenience, now, what one I would suggest is that they change the interface design for one a little more modern, which I think could add more functionality to the entire application.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The fact that it allows me to manage all my APIs from the same platform in a safe, fast and practical way is something of great help to simplify my application development enormously, another point that they have in their favor is that in terms of performance everything works perfectly and without any additional inconvenience, in short it has turned out to be a very good option for all of us.
Simple an easy
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use interface with tools to help manage all inventory.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some errors and kinks need to be worked out.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Tracking is easy but can be tricky
API Gateway for Lua Developers
What do you like best about the product?
Kong is wonderful if you enjoy Lua with Openresty and look to have an sll-in-one solution for API implementation and management. Lua is not as popular as it should be, but Openresty has proven performance and a strong community. For developers using either (likely both) technology, Kong is exciting and fun to implement.
Documentation is also spectacular. Many of the tools within their ecosystem is open source, and usage is free for smaller use cases. They are one of the biggest sponsors of Openresty, so the developer community is pretty active as well.
Documentation is also spectacular. Many of the tools within their ecosystem is open source, and usage is free for smaller use cases. They are one of the biggest sponsors of Openresty, so the developer community is pretty active as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Kong is great for implementation of API's, a more manual implementation using serverless is usually the path most devs go for. Kong's use case is a bit too specific to bring over most modern microservice devs to the table. This really limits Kong to just large enterprise contracts which likely do not have as large of a consumer base due to the usage of Lua.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I found Kong looking for active products implementing Openresty. I assume 90% of kong's customers also do the same.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
serverless will be easier to hire developers for if you are looking for long-term implementations.
Kong - API Gateway
What do you like best about the product?
1. Plugin based Architecture help to extend faster
2. Build on top of Nginx prove it to be satble in production
3. Lua Scripting Language make it easy to understand write code for Kong
4. Quick support community on Slack
2. Build on top of Nginx prove it to be satble in production
3. Lua Scripting Language make it easy to understand write code for Kong
4. Quick support community on Slack
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Lack of a Official UI or Administration Panel
2. Lack of built-in analytics at small scale
3. Lack of policies structure to be applied to multiple consumers
4. Non Cassandra DB support
2. Lack of built-in analytics at small scale
3. Lack of policies structure to be applied to multiple consumers
4. Non Cassandra DB support
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed to publish our REST APIs to our partners and later utilize same APIs to be consumed for our mobile products. So we need to implant an API gateway which helps us to stream line our APIs development to deployment process.
With kong we can avoid writing lot of similar code on each API, like rate limiting and logging.
With kong we can avoid writing lot of similar code on each API, like rate limiting and logging.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Must consider evaluating its available UIs or admin interfaces before going live. Since in live environment, you can't actually go to your notes and look for curl commands.
Api Abstraction to the best
What do you like best about the product?
No worries about implementation, Takes very little time to setup and get things running. I was using way2sms api to send sms for my project work. I used their python library which was great
What do you dislike about the product?
I was a bit doubtful about the auth system. which involved sending the sms text, and login credentials as url parameter in the GET request.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I was trying to implement phone verification using sms
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I used a very small portion of serrvice that kong provides and i was pretty happy :)
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