you would use both. Django REST Framework (or any other framework) to build your business logic and API services. Kong is useful to scale and manage acceess t

you would use both. Django REST Framework (or any other framework) to build your business logic and API services. Kong is useful to scale and manage acceess to the API for API consumers (as oppose to end users) as well as a plugin system that abstracts HTTP tooling away from your API application, so you can scale them independently.