SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Kong Inc., the
leading API platform for modern architectures, today launched Kong
1.0, the latest version of Kong's core open source technology that
incorporates learnings from three years of production experience
for a fully featured offering. Developers, DevOps engineers and
solutions architects at organizations ranging from startups to
Fortune 500 enterprises use Kong to effectively secure, connect and
orchestrate APIs within modern architectures to help meet evolving
demands for scalability, performance and flexibility.
The company introduced Kong 1.0 today at Kong Summit 2018, an
inaugural event bringing attendees together to inform and inspire
them as they transition toward cloud-native, microservices
architectures in today's hybrid world. Kong 1.0 serves as the
foundation for the company's vision of building a service control
platform that leverages artificial intelligence (AI), machine
learning, API security and other break-through technologies to
intelligently broker and secure the flow of all information to and
from any service.
Ongoing support and contributions from the open source community
have made Kong the most widely used open source API platform,
including more than 45 million downloads. Today, Kong 1.0 is
feature-complete. It combines sub-millisecond low latency, linear
scalability and unparalleled flexibility with a robust feature set,
support for service mesh patterns, Kubernetes Ingress controller
and backward compatibility between versions. Service mesh support
enables Kong to be deployed alongside each instance to broker
information flow between services and automatically scale as those
services scale. Through Kong's Kubernetes Ingress controller, users
can tie directly to the Kubernetes lifecycle. As applications are
deployed and new services are created, Kong automatically live
configures itself to serve traffic to these services. Additionally,
new migrations functionality eases any necessary migrations from
one database schema to another with zero downtime when upgrading to
a new version of Kong.
"Kong 1.0 represents a momentous milestone as we progress toward
our larger vision of moving beyond traditional API management to
intelligently broker the flow of all information and act as air
traffic control for any service, from REST to gRPC and L4 to L7,"
said Augusto Marietti, CEO and
co-founder of Kong. "We've seen significant production growth in
the Kong ecosystem since we launched in 2015, and we're proud to
introduce the fully featured Kong 1.0 to the world today. API
management is rapidly evolving with the industry, and technology
must evolve with it. We built Kong from the ground up to meet these
needs -- Kong is the only API platform designed to manage and
broker the demands that in-flight data increasingly place on modern
software architectures."
Thousands of organizations across all industries, including
Yahoo! Japan, Ferrari, WeWork and
Healthcare.gov, currently use Kong to better manage traffic for
microservices, containers, cloud and serverless. "As Yahoo!
Japan shifts to microservices, we
needed more than just an API gateway – we needed a high-performance
platform to manage all APIs across a modern architecture," said
Kanaderu Fukuda, senior manager of the Computing Platform
Department at Yahoo! Japan. "With
Kong as a single point for proxying and routing traffic across all
of our API endpoints, we eliminated redundant code writing for
authentication and authorization, saving hundreds of hours. Kong
positions us well to take advantage of future innovations, and
we're excited to expand our use of Kong for service mesh
deployments next."
To learn more about Kong and how it can help organizations,
please visit:
- Webinar -- Serverless at Expedia: Learnings from Real Life Use
Cases
- Webinar -- Demystifying Service Mesh: New Pattern or New
Technology?
- Webinar -- Install and Scale Kong on Kubernetes: How To
Video
- eBook -- Service Mesh and the Natural Evolution of
Microservices
- eBook -- Blowing Up the Monolith: Adopting a
Microservices-Based Architecture
- eBook -- Kubernetes: The Future of Infrastructure
- Kong GitHub
About Kong Inc.
Kong delivers a next-generation API platform designed for modern
architectures, including microservices, containers, cloud and
serverless. Offering high flexibility, scalability, speed and
performance, Kong enables developers and Global 5000 enterprises to
reliably secure, connect and orchestrate microservice APIs for
modern applications. Kong is building the future of service control
platforms to intelligently broker information across services. For
more information about Kong, please visit https://konghq.com/ or
follow @thekonginc on Twitter.
Media Contact:
Pauline
Louie
Kong, Inc.
(415) 754-9283
201835@email4pr.com
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