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Linux Foundation

API Gateway Pattern and Kong in Microservices - Securing and Managing APIs

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Explore the API Gateway Pattern and Kong in a microservices architecture through this 42-minute conference talk by Marco Palladino, CTO of Mashape. Dive into the importance of APIs as a communication medium in containerized environments and learn how Kong, the widely adopted open-source API gateway, can secure, protect, and extend RESTful APIs and microservices. Discover how API gateways centralize common functionality, providing a high-performance, extensible, and lightweight layer for both internal and external services, including serverless functions. Gain insights into efficiently managing and extending services in various environments and multi-datacenter setups. Understand the technical aspects of Kong, built on Lua and NGINX, and its role in addressing the challenges of increasing service creation in single or multi-datacenter environments.

Syllabus

API Gateway Pattern & Kong in a Microservices World

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Linux Foundation

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