API Gateway Pattern & Kong in a Microservices World
summary
Kong is an open source API gateway built on Lua + NGINX that claims 300,000 running instances per month and achieves sub-millisecond processing latency after cache warmup. It stores config in Cassandra or Postgres, exposes a JSON admin API for dynamic provisioning, and runs on Docker, Mesos or bare metal. Demo provisions an API, adds key auth (secret123), and enforces a 5 requests per minute rate limit via plugins, with enterprise features like RBAC and developer portals.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Start
- 3:09Ice Cream Scoop Strategy
- 3:26Nuclear Bomb Strategy
- 11:21Latency
- 15:16Plugins
- 22:03Proxy Ports
- 25:13Kong Plugins
- 26:25Provision an Api
- 27:06Post Request
- 33:18Rate-Limiting Plugin
- 36:22Dynamic Load Balancing and Service Discovery
- 37:46Can You Put Kong in Front of Your User Interfaces As Well
- 39:23Authentication
- 39:39Editions of Kong
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