2 ms·
Kong has Community Edition and an Enterprise Edition with non-free/proprietary features (same model as MySQL, Nginx, GitLab, & Redis). It's called the open-cor
by tomnipotent 8y ago
Kong has Community Edition and an Enterprise Edition with non-free/proprietary features (same model as MySQL, Nginx, GitLab, & Redis). It's called the open-core model. Company is signaling that it intends to offer all features open source and without restriction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-core_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-core_model
- ausjke 8y agothe evil is in the details so it really depends on the boundary where the core is defined at, in nginx/mysql's case, the core is large enough for 99% small players, and the big players are willing to pay and the income is enough to sustain the projects. I somehow feel Kong's core is a bit limited which is how I found out Gravitee.