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### Eliminate Downtime, Reduce Cost

Instantly reduce latency and increase throughput across all your APIs and microservices with Kong’s ultra-performant lightweight core.

### Maximize Dev Efficiency

Remove redundant tasks and minimize maintenance with Kong’s out-of-the box plugins for security, observability, and traffic control capabilities across every environment.

### Accelerate Time to Market

Eliminate component dependencies and easily integrate into CI/CD pipelines to automate processes and elimi use canary deployments to rapidly test and iterate on APIs.

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Being able to inject end-to-end security and tracing without introducing performance issues is huge for our customers. With Kong Mesh and Kong, we know that our customers will get a flexible, high-performance solution for all their needs, now and in the future.

Aaron Weikle

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CEO at MS3

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With Kong, we knew that we would get something that would work perfectly with our technology today and set us up for where we want to go. Kong allows us to deploy on-premise, easily integrates with all the technologies we use across the company and gives us the flexibility we want to avoid vendor lock-in.

Kanaderu Fukuda

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Senior Manager at Yahoo! Japan

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Since all regional payment systems were previously monoliths exposing APIs separately, the API gateway was a greenfield project for Verifone. "In moving to microservices, we knew we needed an API gateway.

Hans van Leeuwen

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Lead Architect at Verifone

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By using Kong Enterprise, we have been able to build a 360° API lifecycle management platform that has allowed Sky Italia to improve performance and availability while reducing our deployment time. Embracing an API-based model has allowed us to make a deep cultural change, operating according to a “product-driven” pattern and getting closer to our end customer needs

Marco Daccò

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Architecture & Integration Director at Sky Italia

Achieve industry leading performance and scalability with Kong’s lightweight proxies. Seamlessly scale up or down to meet demand by simply adding or removing Kong nodes.

- Near-zero latency
- 25k+ TPS per node
- Horizontal and vertical auto-scaling
- Advanced caching and rate-limiting

Let developers choose the best technology to build a service by providing the ability to connect their APIs across any cloud, orchestrator, platform or protocol.

- 100% container- and Kubernetes-native
- Local runtimes for multi-cloud and hybrid
- Support for gRPC, Kafka, and GraphQL
- Support for legacy workloads and environments

Reduce friction in your development process by enabling self-service reviews and automated deployments.

- Support for all major CI/CD pipelines
- Native support for Git workflows
- Declarative configuration of the Kong Gateway and Kubernetes Ingress Controller
- Automatic generation of API gateway and Kubernetes Ingress configurations