Kong Open-Source API Management and Microservice Management

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

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.

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

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

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

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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