Automating the API Lifecycle with Kong's Service Connectivity

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  • Why many organizations are adopting Kong as the modern API management solution in a fully automated, cloud-agnostic world
  • How organizations who choose Kong are gaining significant benefits in time to market and overall cost of ownership of their API deployments whilst benefitting from a horizontally scalable and extensible platform

Kong's Approach to Centralized API Management

The move to ever-smaller deployments (e.g., containers and serverless functions) and ever more automated ways of testing, deploying and managing the (e.g., CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes) has increased the complexity of a typical application landscape manyfold. To counter the complexity of ever more decentralized business logic, centralizing common functionality and policy is essential to reducing the overhead of security and governance that exists for every deployment unit, as well as to increase the speed of developing new features and functionality.

At the same time, this centralization should not happen somewhere far away from where the implementations are running. Be it on virtual machines, containers or even bare metal, API management should sit right next to the implementations to increase performance, reduce latency and support the same deployment processes and tooling.