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Kong API Gateway
What do you like best about the product?
The first thing of Kong API that ilI like the Most is it's popularity among the World. Can be used in both Hybrid and Multi cloud, it's well optimised for Microservices. It supports Load Balancing of API that's what the most I like of it. We can do clustering, checking health, monitoring few more things. It can even run in Kubernetes. It's Open Source the most Important thing.
What do you dislike about the product?
The part that I don't like of Kong API gateway is we need more Integration with Kubernetes. Need more Medium post on Kong API gateways. Some times issue with connection it's get refused sometimes
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The most Important thing that Kong API gateway solving for me is that it have a large community that you can use to grow. It's open source making itself a large community. Scaling plays a main role as we need to it when traffic is high or when the network is congested Kong is the solution for this use it, if we are facing issue with scalling.
KONG API gateway came so handy and surprised us with tons of external plugins
What do you like best about the product?
Kong was the best open-source api gateway due to its simplicity. It's effortless to use and easy to integrate into your system. with multiple plugins you'll find yourself wanting to use to keep your APIs optimized
What do you dislike about the product?
So far nothing, just wished the kong manager GUI was free
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Providing the team with a central gateway that all the team can use. Saves time by not reinventing the wheel. Provides access and tracking with management using the plugins. Also helped in creating alerts when one of the APIs fail by using the grafana and Prometheus dashboard
Light, fast and simple
What do you like best about the product?
It's simple to understand e put in production, it's light, fast because nginx. nad is highly customizable with plugins
What do you dislike about the product?
Tthe OSS requires a lot of work to automate and manage efficiently
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Provide an API ux unique for the monoliths and other microsevices
Best API gateway tool -Load Balancing and reverse Proxy workd pretty well and configured.
What do you like best about the product?
Kong offers a unified platform that effectively manages all APIs, ensuring uniform security, monitoring, and traffic control across a large number of services.
Kong allows you to define routing rules and policies to control how API requests are distributed to backend services.
Kong allows you to define routing rules and policies to control how API requests are distributed to backend services.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes -Its essential to carefully configure and optimize it to minimize any potential performance impact.Limited plugins as well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong offers good traffic control capabilities, including load balancing and request routing. It enables us to efficiently distribute incoming API requests across multiple backend services, ensuring scalability, high availability, and optimal resource utilization.
We use it for API Gteway for Microservices application.
We use it for API Gteway for Microservices application.
Kong API gateway - gateway to success
What do you like best about the product?
Configurability, ease of use, Informative logging
What do you dislike about the product?
Documentation seems to be not complete in terms of troubleshooting.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helping to manage the complete API ingress.
Simple API Gateway to do the job
What do you like best about the product?
Kong is easy to use, setup and simple API gateway which can provide proxies to your microservice architecture. It can provide extra features using plugins.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not all plugins are free plus it lack to do complex taks like which can be done by IBM API connect or Apigee
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Proxy for API and helping to achieve event based architecture in the Organisation. Kong solution is easy to scale and manage.
In Depth Analysis of Modern API Management with Kong
What do you like best about the product?
With kong support, I have done changes for declarative configuration using YAML and it's integration with CI / CD pipelines which significantly reduced the manual intervention. It helped to accelerate the speed of testing and debugging. I would also like to appreciate the improved developer portal, interactive docs and finally the testing tools.
What do you dislike about the product?
The plugin configuration and debugging can be better since for the new users it is but complicated. But I found the setup is strong and ux can be improved and should be more developer friendly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
API Management in Kong involves comprehensive API capabilities that allows us to efficiently manage and control the access to APIs. It includes many other great features like authentication, rate limiting, request/response transformation, and traffic control. These leveraging functionalities makes the use if Kong management and monitoring of APIs at ease and also ensuring availability and performance.
Scalability of the Kong is easy to handle high volumes of API traffic when ee try again and again for certain specific use and it provides horizontal scalability features ad well. It mainly acts as a centralized entry point for the APIs, load balancing APIs is great among other. Also this capability improves the overall performance and reliability of API infrastructure.
Security Control of Kong involves robust security features to protect the APIs from unauthorized access and potential threats.
Scalability of the Kong is easy to handle high volumes of API traffic when ee try again and again for certain specific use and it provides horizontal scalability features ad well. It mainly acts as a centralized entry point for the APIs, load balancing APIs is great among other. Also this capability improves the overall performance and reliability of API infrastructure.
Security Control of Kong involves robust security features to protect the APIs from unauthorized access and potential threats.
Great ecosystem
What do you like best about the product?
Its app ecosystem enables standardization for authentication across organization applications.
What do you dislike about the product?
Documentation could be improved to flatten newcomers learning curve.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Authentication and authorization can be easily standardize thereby offloading a great deal of operational complexity.
Reviewing Kong
What do you like best about the product?
Kong is the most user friendly API gateway I have used.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is not much I don't like about it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps us integrated our apps
Efficient API management for microservices
What do you like best about the product?
Kong Gateway provides various configuration and change management options saas platform hosted at customer infrastructure.
Kong provides the ability to bring our own custom plugins thereby enhancing community adoption and flexibility.
Kong provides the ability to bring our own custom plugins thereby enhancing community adoption and flexibility.
What do you dislike about the product?
Open source nature of the platform does pose a rick of delayed support when it comes to integration with other systems as well as new feature requests. But i'm sure the team is working on it :)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
kong api gateway helps me in my personal projects to develop applications based out of diverse tech stack. This eases the overhead of maintain domain knowledge and thereby assists in faster iteration on software development.
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