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90 mentions on Hacker News by 24 people: 7 stories, 83 comments · first 2015-04-28 · latest 2025-07-14

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  1. …to understand the value add and differentiator here, since it’s a problem kinda solved already. [ https://github.com/Kong/kong ]
    comment by markanton · 2025-07-14 · in Show HN: ArchGW – An intelligent edge and service proxy for agents
  2. Definitely not, Kong (for example) is "OpenResty plus a management plane" and they're Apache 2: https://github.com/kong/kong#license OpenResty itself is BSD https://github.com/openresty/openresty#copyright--license
    comment by mdaniel · 2022-12-02 · in HAProxy 2.7
  3. …other solutions by the company. The business model is open-core: an Open Source solution exists ( https://github.com/kong/kong ), and there's an Enterprise version with more features and dedicated support. The tech stack is a modified…
    comment by otikik · 2022-04-01 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022)
  4. …application and already provides the right abstractions in place for API management: https://github.com/Kong/kong
    comment by fosk · 2021-05-23 · in The architecture of Uber’s API gateway
  5. Kong is built on OpenResty which is NGINX with a Lua JIT. https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/484 https://openresty.org/en/
    comment by adolph · 2021-01-16 · in Building DigitalOcean's API Gateway
  6. …which is mentioned in this spreadsheet. Disclaimer: I am a maintainer of both Kong and Kuma. [1] - https://github.com/Kong/kong [2] - https://github.com/kumahq/kuma
    comment by fosk · 2020-10-22 · in Comparison of Kubernetes Ingress Controllers
  7. …the same stack (OpenResty) for their global CDN. Disclaimer: I am a Kong contributor. [1] - https://github.com/Kong/kong [2] - https://luajit.org/
    comment by fosk · 2020-07-01 · in Learn Lua in 15 Minutes (2013)
  8. …to take a look at a fairly large (maybe the largest?) OpenResty application you can take a look at https://github.com/Kong/kong Disclaimer: I am CTO at Kong
    comment by fosk · 2020-05-26 · in OpenResty: A Swiss Army Proxy for Serverless
  9. …and constrained if performance - and a customizable feature set - are important requirements. [1] https://github.com/Kong/kong
    comment by fosk · 2020-03-05 · in AWS’s Elastic Load Balancer is a Strangler
  10. Uh, that is a deep drop. Just thinking, could it be related to this: https://github.com/Kong/kong/commit/de4a002565a1723bff9014cb... Definitely something for us to investigate! Thank you for feedback (I'll collect this information to our…
    comment by bungle · 2019-03-29 · in Kong Raises $43M in Series C Funding
  11. …disabled, but entirely removed from the actual runtime). [1] - https://konghq.com/install/ [2] - https://github.com/Kong/kong [3] - https://docs.konghq.com/latest/plugin-development/ [4] - https://docs.konghq.com/hub/
    comment by fosk · 2019-03-28 · in Kong Raises $43M in Series C Funding
  12. …of the community meetups or in the monthly community call that we usually announce on Discuss. [1] https://github.com/Mashape/kong or https://discuss.konghq.com/
    comment by fosk · 2018-12-21 · in Kong gateway reaches 1.0 GA, now supports service mesh
  13. Check out the Upgrade Path here: https://github.com/Kong/kong/blob/master/UPGRADE.md
    comment by mikejulietbravo · 2018-12-20 · in Kong gateway reaches 1.0 GA, now supports service mesh
  14. …good combination is primarily LuaJIT[2] support, a much faster implementation of the Lua VM. [1] - https://github.com/Kong/kong [2] - http://luajit.org
    comment by fosk · 2018-10-30 · in A Look at the Design of Lua
  15. …were the reasons behind building this, can the author(s) weigh in would be interesting to know? [1] https://github.com/Kong/kong
    comment by orliesaurus · 2018-10-25 · in Annon: Configurable API gateway that acts as a reverse proxy with plugin system
  16. im not sure Kong supports mtls or cert pinning. https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/2048 i dont think it's able to hash your secret tokens either - rather stores them in plaintext. https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/1237 this kind of…
    comment by dannyfriar82 · 2018-10-03 · in Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 1
  17. …traffic goes through Lua, but only a few people know it. This is the same stack that Kong ( https://github.com/Mashape/kong ) also uses, probably the most popular OpenResty-based application. Lua on top of LuaJIT can be extremely fast…
    comment by fosk · 2017-10-03 · in A Lua 5.3 VM and compiler written in Go
  18. …in front of dokku: https://getkong.org It works with postgres or cassandra (and eventually scylladb https://github.com/Mashape/kong/issues/754 ). Also, nginx is pretty good at restarts, even with thousands of files and vhosts.
    comment by pas · 2017-09-07 · in Nginx Unit
  19. I had this same idea until I found about: http://openresty.org/en/ https://github.com/Mashape/kong/ Making a full API on nginx via lua sounds crazy but it appears that people do it.
    comment by hyeomans · 2017-08-24 · in JavaScript is Eating the World
  20. …regularly speak to tend to forget the second part. Disclaimer: I am a core committer at Kong[1] [1] https://github.com/Mashape/kong
    comment by fosk · 2017-07-25 · in Ask HN: What's your biggest struggle with Microservices?
  21. …by leveraging the underlying OpenResty[3] framework. [1] http://luajit.org/ext_ffi.html [2] https://github.com/Mashape/kong [3] https://github.com/openresty/lua-nginx-module
    comment by fosk · 2017-05-01 · in LuaJIT 2.0.5 and 2.1.0-beta3 released
  22. …API Revenue[3] and they have one more option called Gelato[4] that provides Kong Integration [1] https://github.com/Mashape/kong [2] https://www.mashape.com/ [3] https://market.mashape.com/pricing/providers [4] https://gelato.io/pricing
    comment by machbio · 2017-01-17 · in Monetize Your APIs in AWS Marketplace Using API Gateway
  23. …API Gateway that can work with Lambda, but with better performance and feature set, take a look at https://github.com/Mashape/kong - there is an open PR for Lambda support which will land in the next version (I am one of the core…
    comment by fosk · 2016-11-21 · in New for AWS Lambda – Environment Variables and Serverless Application Model
  24. …API Gateway. We're looking for core Lua engineers. Shoot us an email at jobs@mashape.com [1] https://github.com/mashape/kong
    comment by sinzone · 2016-10-03 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)
  25. Seems similar to Mashape Kong - really happy with Kong - https://github.com/Mashape/kong
    comment by machbio · 2016-09-01 · in Manage your APIs with Google Cloud Endpoints
  26. If you're looking for an open-source API Gateway (less lock-in) with Lambda Integration then Kong ( https://github.com/Mashape/kong ) could be a useful complementary tool for your serverless architecture.
    comment by sinzone · 2016-07-18 · in Serverless Architectures
  27. …and it allows you to write inline C code thanks to the FFI library (declaring it like this https://github.com/Mashape/kong/blob/master/kong/plugins/fil... , and invoking it like this https://github.com/Mashape/kong/blob/master/kong/plugins/…
    comment by fosk · 2016-04-06 · in Source code for Lua 5.3
  28. I will be much more interested in trying Kong once PostgreSQL is supported: https://github.com/Mashape/kong/issues/331
    comment by justinmayer · 2016-02-26 · in Kong 0.7.0 released
  29. We use it a lot at Mashape, since Kong ( https://github.com/Mashape/kong ) is entirely powered by OpenResty and probably by now, Kong is the most used and adopted OpenResty software. Without OpenResty we couldn't have built Kong or make it…
    comment by sinzone · 2015-12-24 · in An Introduction to OpenResty
  30. …by projects like Kong[2] when it comes to microservices management. [1] http://openresty.org/ [2] https://github.com/Mashape/kong
    comment by sinzone · 2015-11-24 · in The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx
  31. On a side note, Kong ( https://github.com/Mashape/kong ), also mentioned in the article, allows re-configurations through its RESTful interface for every plugin.
    comment by fosk · 2015-10-26 · in HAproxy in the era of Microservices
  32. …Gateway that does many other things so it might be too heavy if all you need is authentication. [1] https://github.com/Mashape/kong [2] https://getkong.org/plugins/jwt/ [3] https://getkong.org/plugins/oauth2-authentication/
    comment by sinzone · 2015-10-23 · in OAuth Has Ruined Everything
  33. …JS is the solution for them. Disclaimer: we built one of the biggest Lua+Nginx project [1] [1] https://github.com/Mashape/kong
    comment by sinzone · 2015-09-23 · in Launching NginScript
  34. …gateway like KONG [1], especially to test unexpected network conditions for our internal APIs. [1] https://github.com/Mashape/kong
    comment by fica · 2015-08-27 · in Toxy, a hackable HTTP proxy to simulate failure scenarios
  35. …to provide Lua scripting, and can also be used with nginx (OpenResty). While developing Kong ( https://github.com/Mashape/kong ) we noticed that LuaJIT provided substantial performance improvements. I hope that the recent step down of the…
    comment by fosk · 2015-08-13 · in Embedding LuaJIT in 30 minutes
  36. We plan to write a great guide, similar to DO model, once Kong ( https://github.com/mashape/kong ) will support Postgres ( https://github.com/Mashape/kong/issues/331 )
    comment by sinzone · 2015-08-03 · in Postgres Guide
  37. …the risk. On a side note, since you mentioned nginx and RESTful APIs, I would check out Kong ( https://github.com/Mashape/kong ) which is built on top of nginx, and provides plugins to alleviate some of these problems (…
    comment by fosk · 2015-07-28 · in Why Docker Is Not Yet Succeeding Widely in Production
  38. Just curious, how Ceryx compares with Kong [1] ? [1] https://github.com/mashape/kong
    comment by fica · 2015-07-27 · in Show HN: Ceryx – Open-source dynamic Nginx
  39. did you look at Kong? https://github.com/mashape/kong
    comment by culo · 2015-07-27 · in Nginx with dynamic upstreams
  40. …well. It's definitely a good fit, especially for the powerful features around JSONB datatypes. [1] https://github.com/Mashape/kong [2] https://github.com/Mashape/kong/issues/331
    comment by sinzone · 2015-07-27 · in Documenting your PostgreSQL database
  41. Unfortunately kong still has a hard dependency on Cassandra. https://github.com/Mashape/kong/issues/331
    comment by dekz · 2015-07-27 · in Nginx with dynamic upstreams
  42. …to have this feature for free. This is the issue open for support for dynamic upstream [2]. [1] https://github.com/mashape/kong [2] https://github.com/Mashape/kong/issues/157
    comment by fica · 2015-07-26 · in Nginx with dynamic upstreams
  43. Would be cool to put Kong [1] on top of the API to handle JWT or CORS [2] out of the box. [1] https://github.com/mashape/kong [2] http://getkong.org/plugins/
    comment by fica · 2015-07-22 · in PostgREST – REST API from any PostgreSQL database
  44. I suggest to check the open source API gateway: https://github.com/mashape/kong
    comment by sinzone · 2015-07-14 · in Leveraging AWS API Gateway and Lambda to Build a Slack Bot
  45. …schemes, better security, more logging options, etc) I would suggest checking out Kong ( https://github.com/Mashape/kong ), which is pluggable with extra functionality and can work in front of the AWS API Gateway to enhance the…
    comment by fosk · 2015-07-14 · in Day One with the Amazon API Gateway
  46. Play with https://github.com/mashape/kong - becoming the largest Lua project.
    comment by culo · 2015-07-12 · in Show HN: Sailor, an MVC web framework in Lua
  47. …for storing the config. [1] https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-powers-kong-api-management-... [2] https://github.com/mashape/kong
    comment by sinzone · 2015-07-10 · in Introduction to Microservices
  48. Yes, Kong plans to add support for PostgreSQL ( https://github.com/Mashape/kong/issues/331 ). In the meanwhile you can outsource Cassandra to cloud providers like https://www.instaclustr.com For testing check out http://kongdb.org/ , but…
    comment by fosk · 2015-07-10 · in Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends
  49. …to add more DNS addresses or IPs per each API. That will make Kong work in load-balancing mode ( https://github.com/Mashape/kong/issues/157 ). > About performance, I can see you are advertising about 1000 r/s using kong Kong is basically…
    comment by fosk · 2015-07-10 · in Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends
  50. …in a week or so (when 0.4.0 will be announced). You will see it appear in the plugin gallery[2] [1] https://github.com/mashape/kong [2] http://getkong.org/plugins/
    comment by fosk · 2015-07-10 · in Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends