BMW’s Decentralized API Gateway at Scale

How BMW moved from a monolithic gateway to 140+ product-level gateways on Kong—adding GitHub-driven governance, multi-cloud flexibility, and faster releases.

BMW modernized API management by moving from a monolithic gateway to decentralized, product-level gateways on Kong. Learn how BMW scaled to 140+ gateways, enforced governance via GitHub pipelines, improved latency, and shipped 24 upgrades/year with zero customer impact.

What you’ll learn:

- From centralized to decentralized microservice gateways (140+ products)

- Automated governance via GitHub/GitOps and CI/CD spec validation

- Cloud-agnostic deployment—from Raspberry Pi to hyperscalers

- Latency improvements (~200ms → ~95ms) and faster release cadence

- Gradual migration (5%→100%) with no user-visible downtime

- Scaling for demand spikes across 24M connected vehicles

- Why keeping business logic out of the gateway matters