Kong Gateway

Kong Gateway is a cloud-based and scalable API gateway used to manage microservices and API traffic. It collects basic functions such as load balancing, health control, authentication and routing in a central layer. It supports AI and LLM traffic management and security features thanks to its expandable add-on system.

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Kong · API Gateways & Clients

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Common commercial products in this category: Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management

What can it do?
  • You can route API traffic and perform load balancing and health checks.
  • You can provide access security for API with different authentication methods.
  • You can manage AI traffic by routing between multiple LLM providers.
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  • ↑ PositiveGitHub Issue

    PostgreSQL support

    “We should support other datastores than Cassandra which is primarily aimed at users who want to benefit from its distribution capabilities. Support for PostgreSQL seems the best candidate for the second datastore, due to its popularity, availability on Amazon RDS and…”

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