A Technical Deep Dive in WebAssembly for Kong Gateway

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WasmX is an nginx module embedding a Wasm VM into Kong Gateway, implementing the Proxy-Wasm interface and supporting multiple Wasm runtimes. The demo compiles a Rust filter, drops it into Kong, enables it on a route and visibly returns 429 rate limit responses, proving the filter runs in-process and enforces limits. Integration with the existing Lua VM and the declarative Kong config is shown, performance and inclusion in the next Kong release are claimed.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:00What is API Gateway
3. 2:25What is Kong Gateway
4. 3:50Why nginx
5. 8:54Performance
6. 14:50ProxyWasm
7. 21:40Conclusion

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