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This answer is a more "what value does an API Gateway provider bring" than Kong specific as it's been a couple of years since I did an in-depth comparison of th
by michaelbuckbee 7y ago
This answer is a more "what value does an API Gateway provider bring" than Kong specific as it's been a couple of years since I did an in-depth comparison of the different options.
Say you have some developed kind of consumable service (think like fraud detection, geolocation, or machine learning recommendations, whatever) then using Kong or another API Gateway as a service type offering is a way to handle big chunks of all the boring but necessary infrastructure needed to bring that to market.
This is stuff like setting up plans, accepting payments, rate limiting, issuing and revoking api keys, docs, etc.
API Gateway's function like a proxy or CDN where api.example.com goes to blah.kong-api-service.com which then requests back to your-app-server.example.com so they're able to do these things without needing to get into your code.
- duxup 7y agoThank you. I wish we had a little plain English summary like this for ... every company ;)
- luckydata 7y agoThat's the job a marketing website should do.
- duxup 7y agoMaybe. The thing is "marketing" is usually what I'm trying to avoid when trying to understand what the company actually does.
- holografix 7y agoI often look at the Wikipedia entry for companies or tech products after trying to unsuccessfully decipher the marketing babble on their website.
- hobofan 7y ago> like setting up plans, accepting payments I might be stupid here, but I have not seen any mention of Kong handling those things on their website.
- slow_donkey 7y agoNot sure about Kong specifically, but monetization is a common feature API gateways support (Apigee)
- Bombthecat 7y agoMonetization is not built-in in most spi gateways / manager. You need to connect then to your payment provider. Which is fairly easy with most products though.