Kong

A Story by
Open Source Microservice & API Management Layer

What is Kong?

Kong is a scalable, open source API Layer (also known as an API Gateway, or API Middleware). Kong controls layer 4 and 7 traffic and is extended through Plugins, which provide extra functionality and services beyond the core platform.
Kong is a tool in the API Gateway category of a tech stack.

Who is using it?

170 companies use Kong in their tech stacks, including CRED, GO-JEK, and Payhere.

CRED

GO-JEK

Payhere

deleokorea

main

Ruangguru

ViaVarejo

Yousign

Productboard

Runtastic

QuintoAndar

Labs

Why developers like Kong

Easy to maintain
Easy to install
Flexible
Great performance
Api blueprint
Custom Plugins
Kubernetes-native
Security
Has a good plugin infrastructure