Kong - Open-Source API and Microservice Management

In short, the microservice architectural style is an approach to developing a single application as a suite of small services, each running in its own process and communicating with lightweight mechanisms, often an HTTP resource API. These services are built around business capabilities and independently deployable by fully automated deployment machinery. There is a bare minimum of centralized management of these services, which may be written in different programming languages and use different data storage technologies. Martin Fowler

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1. Kong
   Open-Source API Management and Microservice Management
   

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2. Micro services
   In short, the microservice architectural style is an approach to developing a single
   application as a suite of small services, each running in its own process and
   communicating with lightweight mechanisms, often an HTTP resource API.
   These services are built around business capabilities and independently
   deployable by fully automated deployment machinery. There is a bare minimum
   of centralized management of these services, which may be written in different
   programming languages and use different data storage technologies.
   Martin Fowler
   

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3. That annoying part when:
   You break the build for 20 other developers.
   Some other developer in a different time zone breaks the build and you’re stuck
   You’re in the unpleasant position of coordinating a release between multiple teams,
   You are stuck with Python 2.6 for the foreseeable future.
   You think that language X will be great for feature Y but someone higher up dislikes
   the idea.
   

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4. The good
   The Unix way:
   Do one thing and do it well
   ‘s/text/http/g’
   Small and cross-functional teams (two-pizza teams)
   Polyglot application (fun!!)
   You build it, you run it
   

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5. The bad
   Complicated deployment (don’t under estimate!)
   Remote calls are more expensive than in-process calls
   Hard to change the allocation of responsibilities
   

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6. Common need of a microservice:
   Authentication
   Rate limiting
   Logging
   Security (SSL, IP restriction, etc...)
   Analytics & Monitoring
   Caching
   

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7. Kong to the rescue!
   Kong can provide all the above, and is:
   Open Source
   Has a large community (~4,500 stars on github)
   Built on top of the battle tested Nginx
   Plugable
   RESTful Interface - easy to configure.
   

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8. Looks nice, now show me some code!
   (click here)
   

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