kong

🦍 The API and AI Gateway

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Kong

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Nov 17, 2014

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Kong is a cloud-native API and AI gateway built on top of NGINX that provides a plugin-based architecture for managing APIs, microservices, and AI workloads. It offers features like load balancing, authentication, rate limiting, transformations, and observability through a comprehensive plugin ecosystem. Kong can be deployed on-premises, in the cloud, or as a hybrid solution with both open-source and enterprise versions available.

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API Gateway ArchitectureAI Service OrchestrationLoad Balancing and RoutingAuthentication and AuthorizationRate Limiting and ThrottlingRequest/Response TransformationService Mesh IntegrationMicroservices ArchitecturePlugin DevelopmentMicroservices Traffic ManagementJSONHybrid CloudSelf-hostedCompound AI SystemsAPI Management and SecurityBinaryMultimodalE-commerceRate Limiting for AI APIsAI Gateway PatternService Discovery and RegistrationDockerAuthentication for Machine Learning ServicesAI ObservabilityLoad Balancing AI WorkloadsAI Service Gateway and RoutingCloud InfrastructureCloud APIAPI Analytics and MonitoringDeveloper ToolsTextKubernetesHealthcareEnterprise SoftwareFinTechOn-premiseLua

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Project created: Nov 17, 2014
Forked: Mar 23, 2026
Your last push: 1 months ago
Upstream last push: 17 days ago
Tracked since: Mar 10, 2026

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