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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
Overall okay satisfied
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use and manage.
Api can be setup easily
Fast Api in case of any pass through
Api can be setup easily
Fast Api in case of any pass through
What do you dislike about the product?
Should have more features like transformation as in integration field only having gateway.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Providing us a gateway easy to use and manage help of integrate pass through APIs
I have worked with Kong for building API Gateways, LB.
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, easy to maintain API's. I have used KONG Gateway for Springboot application, it's easy to make api's for my application. Integration of APIs.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't have anything much ti dislike in Kong.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It makes my life easy by handling all the API's with a single endpoint Gateway.
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
extensive customization, enabling it to fit diverse use cases
What do you like best about the product?
Kong Gateway’s improved support for hybrid deployments and declarative config with decK makes scaling and automation easier. I also like the enhanced UI and seamless integration with service mesh via Kuma.
What do you dislike about the product?
debugging plugin issues can be tricky due to limited error transparency.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Best use with micro services
Kong- the undisputed King of API Gateway
What do you like best about the product?
Its very light weighted, simple to integrate with various upstram application. The best feature is the out of the box plugins, i love them
What do you dislike about the product?
May be the lengthy process of writing customised plugin. This could be handled in a more simple way, like other gateway platforms
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easy to write on top of the legacy applications, securing your internal apis, route level validation
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.
One of the best stable, reliable gateway in industry
What do you like best about the product?
Kong is one of the best in the industry and the best I like is the stability of the gateway. Its super feature rich and much better than apigee or tyk. Also its powerfull AI gateway feature is fantastic, which support semantic caching , helps in reduced costs by sending less calls to llms.
What do you dislike about the product?
Kong seems to be improving its sub products like insomnia and should speed up the same so that integration with kong gateway will get much better and compete with products like postman.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helps to build low latency gateway for our internal infra across the globe.
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