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DevOps teams looking for an API gateway solution
About Kong Gateway
The world’s most popular API gateway. Built for hybrid and multi-cloud, optimized for microservices and distributed architectures. Get started today – download Kong Gateway for free. Kong Gateway supports hybrid or multi-cloud infrastructure, and includes a Kubernetes-native ingress solution and support for declarative configuration management. Kong Gateway is part of the Konnect managed connectivity platform. Konnect delivers connectivity functionality such as API Portals and AI-based anomaly detection, while providing the flexibility of running high performance connectivity runtimes. Use one of the many plugins developed by Kong or our community to add the functionality you need. Build your own plugin with our built in, well-documented plugin development kit. Configure Gateway natively using an API, web UI, or with declarative configuration to manage updates via your CI/CD pipelines.
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Kong Konnect
Kong Konnect Enterprise Service Connectivity Platform brokers an organization’s information across all services. Built on top of Kong’s battle-tested core, Kong Konnect Enterprise enables customers to simplify management of APIs and microservices across hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments. With Kong Konnect Enterprise, customers can proactively identify anomalies and threats, automate tasks, and improve visibility across their entire organization. Stop managing your applications and services, and start owning them with the Kong Konnect Enterprise Service Connectivity Platform. Kong Konnect Enterprise provides the industry’s lowest latency and highest scalability to ensure your services always perform at their best. Kong Konnect has a lightweight, open source core that allows you to optimize performance across all your services, no matter where they run.
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Kong
Founded: 2017
United States
konghq.com/products/api-gateway-platform
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