An Introduction to API Gateways

Introducing our API gateway solution featuring Kong.

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1. INTRODUCTION TO API GATEWAYS
2. AN INTRODUCTION TO API GATEWAYS
3. AN INTRODUCTION TO API GATEWAYS
4. AN INTRODUCTION TO KONG
5. AN INTRODUCTION TO KONG
6. AN INTRODUCTION TO KONG COMMON FUNCTIONALITY ▸ Authentication ▸ Caching ▸ Logging ▸ Rate limiting ▸ Transformations
7. AN INTRODUCTION TO KONG COMMON FUNCTIONALITY ▸ Authentication ▸ Caching ▸ Logging ▸ Rate limiting ▸ Transformations
8. AN INTRODUCTION TO KONG COMMON FUNCTIONALITY ▸ Authentication ▸ Caching ▸ Logging ▸ Rate limiting ▸ Transformations
9. AN INTRODUCTION TO KONG CONSOLIDATION ▸ Potentially hundreds of APIs on different servers ▸ One hostname to rule them all
10. AN INTRODUCTION TO KONG MOVE FAST, BREAK NOTHING ▸ Registering an API is just an API call to Kong ▸ Changing an API is just an API call to Kong
11. AN INTRODUCTION TO KONG THOSE WHO CONTROL THE PRESENT, CONTROL THE PAST ▸ “Fix” legacy URL issues ▸ https://unit-api.realpage.com/v2/sites/a99e12/foo ▸ becomes ▸ https://esapi.realpage.com/unit-api/a99e12/sites
12. AN INTRODUCTION TO KONG BALANCE THE LOAD ▸ Kong can provide load balancing
13. AN INTRODUCTION TO KONG SECURITY AS A SERVICE ▸ One SSL certificate for esapi.realpage.com
14. AN INTRODUCTION TO KONG TIPPING THE SCALES ▸ Scaling Kong horizontally ▸ Scaling backends horizontally ▸ Caching
15. AN INTRODUCTION TO KONG AUTOBOTS, TRANSFORM! ▸ Add or remove headers ▸ Add or remove query string parameters ▸ Add or remove fields from response bodies
16. QUESTIONS? AN INTRODUCTION TO API GATEWAYS