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Kong API Gateway is a great product to use
What do you like best about the product?
Multiple Features and Functionality in terms of API conversion and Load balancing, Reverse proxy and API gateway.
What do you dislike about the product?
IOT API Protocol conversion is NOT supported.
Example MQTT to IP
or NBACNET to IP
Example MQTT to IP
or NBACNET to IP
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
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1. Cisco IOTOD (EI Cloud module) and EI agent Microservice observability service graph based monitoring via Cisco Calisti SMM - AMQP, MQTT et al event triggered Protocol integration support – New requirement
2. Multi cloud Event Mesh architectural paradigm with Cisco Calisti
3. Envoy WASM - MQTT Kafka Bridge integration – current limitations in Calisti discussion
1. Cisco IOTOD (EI Cloud module) and EI agent Microservice observability service graph based monitoring via Cisco Calisti SMM - AMQP, MQTT et al event triggered Protocol integration support – New requirement
2. Multi cloud Event Mesh architectural paradigm with Cisco Calisti
3. Envoy WASM - MQTT Kafka Bridge integration – current limitations in Calisti discussion
plugin developper
What do you like best about the product?
well documented with examples and youtube channels.
well structured and easily to build deveopment environment from examples
deployment and integration is easy and clear
well structured and easily to build deveopment environment from examples
deployment and integration is easy and clear
What do you dislike about the product?
not many pictures/diagramme for understanding deeply the flow and architecture
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
integration for security reason
Kong- ensure the security, scalability, and reliability of APIs
What do you like best about the product?
One of the main advantages of Kong is its flexibility and extensibility. It supports multiple protocols and can be easily customized and extended with plugins. Kong also has a powerful control plane that allows developers to manage and monitor APIs using a web-based dashboard or API.
What do you dislike about the product?
limitation with open-source...................
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Increased productivity: Developers can focus on building and improving APIs instead of worrying about infrastructure and security.
Improved user experience: APIs are more scalable and reliable, which ensures that users can access them quickly and easily.
Reduced costs: Kong API Gateway reduces the need for costly infrastructure and security solutions, which can save organizations money.
Faster time to market: With Kong API Gateway, developers can quickly create and deploy APIs, which helps organizations bring new products and services to market faster.
Improved user experience: APIs are more scalable and reliable, which ensures that users can access them quickly and easily.
Reduced costs: Kong API Gateway reduces the need for costly infrastructure and security solutions, which can save organizations money.
Faster time to market: With Kong API Gateway, developers can quickly create and deploy APIs, which helps organizations bring new products and services to market faster.
Head Of Engineering - enabling the cloud services
What do you like best about the product?
plugin architecture that enables developers to customize and extend its core functionality
Service Discovery
Service Discovery
What do you dislike about the product?
Because of its complexity, Kong may have a steeper learning curve for developers who are not already familiar with its architecture and plugin system.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong's plugin architecture provides a flexible way for developers to extend and customize its functionality, allowing them to add features like logging, monitoring, and transformation to their APIs.
Kong - the big guy that simplify your routes
What do you like best about the product?
Kong API gateway has a simple manager GUI that facilitates the configuration; it is easy to get started fast using this GUI. Also, plugin support and modularity are big advantages of Kong.
What do you dislike about the product?
Documentation would be better if it contained detailed steps for configuring Postgres.
Also, datastore support is limited to Postgres; it will be better to support other DB like MySQL.
Also, datastore support is limited to Postgres; it will be better to support other DB like MySQL.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Routing of application components in microservices.
Works well with GitOps.
The powerful REST API of Kong helps in automation.
DevPortal is a potential place to help developers in creating their APIs.
Works well with GitOps.
The powerful REST API of Kong helps in automation.
DevPortal is a potential place to help developers in creating their APIs.
Very Good Platform
What do you like best about the product?
Analytics
Monitoring
Plugins
Developer portal
Monitoring
Plugins
Developer portal
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing
As per knowledge i dont have any.
As per knowledge i dont have any.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Analytics
Powerful and Configurable, but Documentation Could Be Improved
What do you like best about the product?
I like that Kong Gateway offers configuration possibilities and is designed for developers. Additionally, the management of rate limiting, API keys, and the ease of integration with Kubernetes are aspects that I find really useful.
What do you dislike about the product?
Examples and documentation
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Kong Gateway to control access to different APIs. It makes it easier for me to manage rate limiting, API keys, and its integration with Kubernetes.
API Gateway made efficient by Kong
What do you like best about the product?
Our API management and deployment has been more efficient with Kong, especially when managing and load balancing the number of requests that come in.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing as of yet, but as we expand our capacity, we may need to see the availability of additional features
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
API deployment and load balancing was an issue and that is now resolved
One of the best gateway solution with well thought architecture and documentation.
What do you like best about the product?
Wide-range installation support with pre-made containers made the deployment process seamless. Support of rate limiting, third-party monitoring integrations and large community-developed plugins which can easily be configured makes it widely superior to other competitors.
Highly Recommended.
Highly Recommended.
What do you dislike about the product?
Support for Data transformation layers for legacy apps can be a big plus. UI can feel a bit sluggish and can be improved.
Apart from that not a lot of complaints,kong is pretty solid. It took care of all my use-case, and its performance is top-tier.
Apart from that not a lot of complaints,kong is pretty solid. It took care of all my use-case, and its performance is top-tier.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It eliminated the necessity of handling multiple REST services.
Different Transformation plugins made communication between various services seamless.
It took care of our scalability needs and was very proficient in handled large concurrent traffic.
Different Transformation plugins made communication between various services seamless.
It took care of our scalability needs and was very proficient in handled large concurrent traffic.
Kong's Simplified API gateway
What do you like best about the product?
In my opinion, Kong API Gateway is a great choice because of its lightweight nature, also it's ease of installation, and ease of use even for beginners. Moreover, it has an intuitive user interface that is sleek and easy to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Kong API can be expensive for smaller teams, but apart from that, I cannot think of anything I dislike about Kong API. It's great.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitors API requests, manages API requests, and due to being lightweight, it saves a lot of space along with the time. Also, it's additional functionality to APIs and services puglins helps alot.
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