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Kong

Last updated May 16, 2025, generated by Sumble

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What is Kong?

Kong is a popular open-source API gateway and service connectivity platform. It manages and secures APIs and microservices by providing functionalities such as authentication, authorization, rate limiting, traffic control, logging, and transformations. It is commonly used to decouple microservices, manage external APIs, and modernize legacy applications.

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What other technologies are related to Kong?

Kong Competitor Technologies

Apigee is a full lifecycle API management platform, directly competing with Kong in API gateway functionality.

mentioned alongside Kong in 9% (1.8k) of relevant job posts

Tyk is an open-source API gateway and management platform, offering similar features to Kong.

mentioned alongside Kong in 42% (139) of relevant job posts

WSO2 offers an API management platform that competes with Kong's API management capabilities.

mentioned alongside Kong in 11% (386) of relevant job posts

AWS API Gateway

AWS API Gateway is a managed API gateway service, directly competing with Kong.

mentioned alongside Kong in 7% (477) of relevant job posts

Axway provides API management solutions that compete with Kong.

mentioned alongside Kong in 10% (219) of relevant job posts

MuleSoft's Anypoint Platform provides API management and integration capabilities that compete with Kong.

mentioned alongside Kong in 2% (1.1k) of relevant job posts

3Scale is an API management platform that competes with Kong in providing API gateway and management functionalities.

mentioned alongside Kong in 13% (115) of relevant job posts

Google Apigee is a full lifecycle API management platform, directly competing with Kong in API gateway functionality.

mentioned alongside Kong in 11% (97) of relevant job posts

Kong Complementary Technologies

Istio is a service mesh that can be used alongside Kong, particularly in Kubernetes environments, to manage traffic and security for microservices.

mentioned alongside Kong in 3% (498) of relevant job posts

Keycloak is an open-source identity and access management solution that can be integrated with Kong for authentication and authorization.

mentioned alongside Kong in 3% (365) of relevant job posts

JWT (JSON Web Tokens) is a standard for securely transmitting information, often used with Kong for authentication and authorization of API requests.

mentioned alongside Kong in 2% (515) of relevant job posts

Which job functions mention Kong?

Job function

Jobs mentioning Kong

Orgs mentioning Kong

Engineering & R&D

0% (4.5k) job posts

2 organizations

Engineer

0% (4.5k) job posts

146 organizations

Software Engineer

0% (3.9k) job posts

583 organizations

DevOps Engineer

0% (709) job posts

267 organizations

Site Reliability Engineer

0% (258) job posts

67 organizations

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Which organizations are mentioning Kong?

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Industry

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Matching People

Finance and Insurance

Finance and Insurance

Professional Services

Other Services (except Public Administration)

Professional Services

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