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. | It is for individuals, startups, SMEs, and large enterprises who want to save valuable time and energy when building and maintaining software products. It offers a suite of APIs including verification, web conversion, data conversion, and UK postcode APIs. These essential core building blocks make it easy to enrich the user experience, perform address checks and email validation, and scrap web content and data quickly and easily. |
Logging: Log requests and responses to your system over TCP, UDP or to disk;
OAuth2.0: Add easily an OAuth2.0 authentication to your APIs;
Monitoring: Live monitoring provides key load and performance server metrics;
IP-restriction: Whitelist or blacklist IPs that can make requests;
Authentication: Manage consumer credentials query string and header tokens;
Rate-limiting: Block and throttle requests based on IP or authentication;
Transformations: Add, remove or manipulate HTTP params and headers on-the-fly;
CORS: Enable cross-origin requests to your APIs that would otherwise be blocked;
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Performance at any scale;
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