API Gateway Pattern & Kong in a Microservices World
Channel: The Linux Foundation
Date: 2017-09-21

API Gateway Pattern & Kong in a Microservices World - Marco Palladino, Mashape

Kong (https://getkong.org/) is the most widely adopted OSS gateway for APIs and 
Microservices. Built on top of Lua and NGINX, Kong can is a high-performance 
gateway that can be elastically deployed behind the firewall to secure, protect 
and extend RESTful APIs and Microservices via Kong Plugins.

In a container world APIs are becoming increasingly more important as a
communication medium - inside and outside the firewall. The more services are 
being created, the harder it gets to efficiently secure, manage and extend them 
in a variety of environments, in singe or multi-DC setups.

API gateways can be used to centralized common functionality in one place, by 
providing a highly performant, extensible and lightweight layer for both 
internal and external services, including serverless functions.

About

Marco Palladino
Kong
CTO
San Francisco
Websitehttps://getkong.org
Marco Palladino is an inventor, software developer, and internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CTO of Mashape, which was started in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California. He is currently responsible for the design and delivery of the Mashape products, while also providing the technical thought leadership around APIs and Microservices within Mashape and the external community. This includes being one of the core maintainer of Kong, the most widely adopted open-source API gateway for Microservices, that came out of Mashape. He is also the creator of the largest API marketplace in the world.