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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.
Best Tool for Starting Out
What do you like best about the product?
As a computer science student and an upcoming intern, my experience with Kong API Gateway has been quite enlightening. Navigating the complexities of modern application development, particularly in the world of APIs and microservices, Kong has proven to be a robust tool that helps between theoretical knowledge and practical application.
The first thing that stood out about Kong is its extensive and organized documentation. As someone new to the field, the clear examples and detailed explanations made the initial setup and configuration straightforward.Kong’s plugin architecture is particularly impressive. It allows for easy customization and enhancement of the API gateway functionalities.Kong’s compatibility with containerized environments like Kubernetes is also particularly beneficial.
The first thing that stood out about Kong is its extensive and organized documentation. As someone new to the field, the clear examples and detailed explanations made the initial setup and configuration straightforward.Kong’s plugin architecture is particularly impressive. It allows for easy customization and enhancement of the API gateway functionalities.Kong’s compatibility with containerized environments like Kubernetes is also particularly beneficial.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Kong offers a free open-source version, some advanced features are only available in the paid versions. This is a limitaction for me as I cant utilise them. Also I have somtimes noticed that CPU usage also spikes abnormally when utilising Kong.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have utilised to solve routing requests quite efficiently using Kong. Furthermore it gives a decent service in term of monitoring and logging which earlier had to be configured explicitly for my application.
Kong API Gateway Survey - Vivek Doddaguni
What do you like best about the product?
ease of use; Number of features and customer support
What do you dislike about the product?
Performance issues while running the api's
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It can solve the bank's Fraud Detection Platform where most of the deveopment is using web API
Kong enterprise and Kong Konnect review.
What do you like best about the product?
The software is very easy to implement. We use docker on a linux VM. The Kong API gateway is easily configurable for defining services and routes. We take advantage of both basic authorization and key authorization for our security needs. The API gateway is used for both production and non-production environments. We have had some needs for support. We have found that customer support is quick in responding to tickets to help us resolve the issue or question. We recently started using Konnect to control our configurations for easier data plane management.
What do you dislike about the product?
The one thing that we don't really like is the UI and the filtering ability. The filter feature is good. But, feel that the filter should stay in place until you change it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The gateway is primarily used as a security front end for routing to our services.
Futuristic API gateway - Kong
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of deployment and free offering to create and test our services really helps anyone starting their APIM journey.
What do you dislike about the product?
Kong does not provide a debugger like other API management tools which can be a problem in some situations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong helped in Migration from legacy APIM tools
Provides easy ad flexible deployment options
Provides easy ad flexible deployment options
Kong API Gateway experience so far
What do you like best about the product?
The way it works and how routing is easily managed by the api. I am using the Kong API Gateway as an Ingress and a stand-alone gateway in which both setups are easy to integrate either with helm, manifests, standalone or with etcd datastore. I am not using support but usually find most of the things I need in the docs or forums.
The kong API and Ingress is something that I use and trust every day.
The kong API and Ingress is something that I use and trust every day.
What do you dislike about the product?
When I started using Kong API the documentation was pretty hard to understand, I think that it was reworked and now it's a bit easier to understand.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
HA Routing and security for micro-services.
Streamlining API Management with Kong
What do you like best about the product?
1. High Performance and Scalability
2. Extensibility with Plugins
3. Ease of Deployment and Management
4. Ease of Monitoring and Analytics:
2. Extensibility with Plugins
3. Ease of Deployment and Management
4. Ease of Monitoring and Analytics:
What do you dislike about the product?
It need to have better performance for other laguages, it it has for luma
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ease of Deployment and Management
API Gateway and Service Mesh
API Gateway and Service Mesh
api gateway service
What do you like best about the product?
very easy process with api gateway and endpoint protection solution also very easy to understand
What do you dislike about the product?
no need, any everything is good kong api
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easily apply proven principles of DevOps and GitOps to bring applications online faster using Aws integrate
KONG API MANAGEMENT
What do you like best about the product?
Adds support for audio transcription, translation, image generation, batch LLM calls, stateful assistants, and response introspection via providers like OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Azure, Gemini, Cohere, Hugging Face. Empowering richer, multilingual, multimedia agent
What do you dislike about the product?
Kong OSS lacks a built-in GUI; the enterprise UI (Kong Manager) is powerful but can be overwhelming or unintuitive for new users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong API gateway is opensource and it support multiple language. so we are to add multiple services along with security. Kong API gateway also easy to do configuration and installation to our system
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