GitHub Pages vs Kong
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Public webpages hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live. | 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. |
Blogging with Jekyll; Custom URLs; Automatic Page Generator | 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;
Anything: Need custom functionality? Extend Kong with your own Lua plugins; |
Statistics | |
GitHub Stars - | GitHub Stars 42.1K |
GitHub Forks - | GitHub Forks 5.0K |
Stacks 17.7K | Stacks 671 |
Followers 13.0K | Followers 1.5K |
Votes 1.1K | Votes 139 |
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