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About the Kong Gateway

Kong Gateway is a lightweight, fast, and flexible cloud-native API Gateway built for modern architectures, including microservices, hybrid-cloud, and multi-cloud environments. It acts as a reverse proxy that sits in front of any RESTful API, enabling organizations to manage, configure, and route requests to their APIs. Kong provides essential functionalities like advanced routing, load balancing, health checks, and a wide array of authentication and authorization mechanisms (e.g., OAuth 2.0, JWT, ACLs). Its core strength lies in its extensible plugin system, allowing users to add functionalities like rate limiting, logging, caching, request/response transformations, and more. Recent advancements include the Kong AI Gateway, a powerful set of AI features for securing, managing, and optimizing AI/LLM traffic. Kong Gateway can be deployed with or without a database and integrates natively with Kubernetes via its Ingress Controller, making it a highly scalable and adaptable solution for orchestrating API and microservices traffic.