Why is Kong king for modernization?

The fastest, most-adopted API gateway is just the start

The world’s most sensitive and critical traffic volumes run on Kong. Why? With battle-tested open-source technology and enterprise-grade solutions and support, Kong is the most trusted and performant cloud-native API management platform for the modern tech stack.

And since Kong is cloud, protocol, and language agnostic, our products work seamlessly with both emerging and legacy technologies. That’s why developers building modern enterprises find success with Kong.

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    Powering reliable API led connectivity for millions of engineers and 500+ global brands

    “We were able to create more than 450 new digital services within just six months and achieved up to 65-times faster deployment with automated validations.” Colin Schaub, Lead API Engineer at Cargill

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    65x Faster Performance

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    3x Faster Time to Market

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    57% Reduction in Operational Cost

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    Kong’s capabilities are unmatched

    Capabilities

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    Unparalleled performance
    Lightweight and cloud-native architecture stack 50K+ transactions per second per node. Sub-millisecond latency. 446x Faster & 31x Higher Throughput.*
    Large API gateway deployment footprint and complex architectures fail to meet performance, cost, and scalability requirements.
    Kubernetes-native API management
    100% Kubernetes-native architecture and interfaces to enable you to take full advantage of the power of Kubernetes.
    Designed in the pre-Kubernetes era with no Kubernetes interfaces. Footprints too large to take advantage of Kubernetes resource management benefits.
    Vendor agnostic
    Connect services across any cloud, any platform, and any modern protocol, such as REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and Kafka.
    Limited or no support across clouds, platforms and protocols increasing risk of silos and introducing vendor lock-in.
    Open-source DNA
    Built on trusted open source, widely adopted and driven by a massive developer community.
    290M+ Downloads. 2.7M+ Active Instances. 160K+ Community Members. 62K+ Stars on GitHub.
    Untested projects with limited adoption or outdated approaches can lead to enterprise customers playing the role of quality assurance.
    Extensible
    Easily add advanced traffic management functionality leveraging 95+ out-of-the-box plugins, community plugins and custom plugins.
    Limited ability to extend and customize.
    Security
    Implement consistent and fine grained traffic and security policies through advanced out-of-the-box security plugins.
    Limited security features across all use cases.
    Scalability
    Light footprint and stateless architecture allows instant scaling up or down to meet customer demand.
    Large deployment footprint and complex architecture increases scaling complexity.
    Automation
    Enable declarative configuration and easily apply proven principles of DevOps and GitOps to automate each phase of the API and microservices lifecycle.
    Manual intervention necessary to release code into production delaying time-to-market.
    Enterprise-grade support and services
    Connect with a dedicated team of API experts for onboarding and high-quality support. Follow guided learning through self-paced Kong Academy courses.
    Lack of technical expertise. Support services often outsourced leading to longer time to resolution.

    Kong named a Gartner© Magic Quadrant™ Leader for Full Life Cycle API Management

    Positioned furthest on the vision axis, 3 years in a row

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