Bridge Kafka Streams and APIs with Kong Gateway

A practical pattern to expose Kafka data via secure, near‑real‑time REST APIs using Kong Gateway, AWS Lambda, MongoDB, and OAuth/JWT.

Siemens shares how they bridged Confluent Kafka event streams with REST APIs using Kong Gateway, AWS Lambda, and MongoDB. Learn how they reduced redundant storage, centralized security, and enabled near‑real‑time access for legacy and modern systems.

What you’ll learn:

- Architecture: Kafka → MongoDB → AWS Lambda → Kong Gateway

- API Ops with GitLab CI and OpenAPI (x-extensions for plugins)

- OAuth/JWT with Entra ID, fine-grained access, and auditability

- Cost, efficiency, and attack surface reduction by direct Lambda invocation

- Unified observability with Prometheus/Grafana and tracing