Unifying REST and Event APIs for Partners

How Ingka (IKEA) built a partner portal that standardizes API products, documentation, subscriptions, and governance using Kong Gateway and a Solace upstream plugin.

Ingka (IKEA) shares how they built a partner portal that unifies REST and event-driven APIs. Learn how they standardize API products, documentation, subscriptions, and governance with Kong Gateway and a Solace upstream plugin.

Key topics:
- API product model, documentation standards, and linting
- Unified auth, rate limiting, and approval workflows
- Exposing events as APIs via REST-to-event protocol abstraction
- Persistent connections for cost efficiency and end-to-end observability