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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. Check out Kong, even easier, built on nginx and better docs too: https://github.com/Mashape/kong
    comment by DonPellegrino · 2015-07-09 · in Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends
  2. There is also api umbrella or KONG which is the most popular OSS API gateway: https://github.com/mashape/kong
    comment by culo · 2015-07-09 · in Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends
  3. https://github.com/Mashape/kong#architecture
    comment by culo · 2015-07-09 · in Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends
  4. have you look at the open source KONG https://github.com/mashape/kong ?
    comment by culo · 2015-07-09 · in Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends
  5. or you can use open source api gateways, free. like Kong ( https://github.com/mashape/kong ) or Tyk.
    comment by culo · 2015-07-09 · in Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends
  6. Flexibility and being able to easily add extra functionality is the underlying philosophy of Kong ( https://github.com/Mashape/kong ), of which I am one of the core contributors. We are accepting pull-requests from the community for new…
    comment by fosk · 2015-07-09 · in Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends
  7. Did you guys tried the open source api gateway KONG? ( https://github.com/mashape/kong )
    comment by culo · 2015-07-09 · in Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends
  8. …extra functionality, and potentially sit on top of the AWS-> Lambda integration, take a look at https://github.com/Mashape/kong (I am a core maintainer too, so feel free to ask me any question). Kong is accepting plugins from the community…
    comment by fosk · 2015-07-09 · in Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends
  9. …source KONG API gateway [2] [1] https://www.forrester.com/Sizing+The+Market+For+API+Manageme... [2] https://github.com/mashape/kong
    comment by culo · 2015-07-09 · in Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends
  10. …happened in search with all cloud solutions and then ElasticSearch came out and was game over. [1] https://github.com/mashape/kong
    comment by culo · 2015-07-09 · in Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends
  11. we use the same technology with KONG [1] [1] https://github.com/mashape/kong
    comment by sinzone · 2015-07-07 · in Handling 1M Requests per Minute with Go
  12. …is basically OpenResty (nginx) in the front? With LuaJIT performances [2] are outstanding. [1] https://github.com/mashape/kong [2] https://github.com/mashape/kong#benchmarks
    comment by sinzone · 2015-07-07 · in Handling 1M Requests per Minute with Go
  13. Would be cool to have ES as Lua plugin for KONG [1] [1] https://github.com/mashape/kong
    comment by sinzone · 2015-07-04 · in Lua client for Elasticsearch
  14. …processes. To reduce complexity and centralize common functionalities API Gateways such as KONG ( https://github.com/mashape/kong ) are the base of microservice architectures.
    comment by culo · 2015-07-01 · in Microservice Trade-Offs
  15. Kong - Open Source API Management ( https://github.com/mashape/kong ) Created by Mashape, hiring: https://mashape.com/jobs
    comment by culo · 2015-07-01 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)
  16. …started to live on the edges. In space explorations you always have a mothership after all. [1] https://github.com/mashape/kong
    comment by sinzone · 2015-07-01 · in Microservice Trade-Offs
  17. Do you guys use Kong ( https://github.com/mashape/kong ) or similar open-source solutions for API management; went with commercial services such as Mashery or you built that in house?
    comment by culo · 2015-06-30 · in Show HN: Distributed Cloud Compilation API
  18. …to handle authentications, logging, rate-limiting, etc.. 1. Open-source solutions like KONG ( https://github.com/mashape/kong ) or similar? 2. Built in house? 3. Commercial services such as Apigee, Mashery?
    comment by culo · 2015-06-30 · in Show HN: Free Company Logo API
  19. …to avoid to invest in technologies that are not fully open or usable under the right license. [1] https://github.com/mashape/kong
    comment by culo · 2015-06-30 · in U.S. Supreme Court Denies Google's Request to Appeal Oracle API Case
  20. …on a customized nginx with Lua modules; doing amazing things from security to API management. [0] http://github.com/mashape/kong
    comment by sinzone · 2015-06-26 · in How CloudFlare extracts a signal from 10 trillion log lines each month [video]
  21. On a side note, for microservices that expose a RESTful API I would also take a look at Kong ( https://github.com/Mashape/kong ) for delegating common functionality like security or rate-limiting.
    comment by fosk · 2015-06-22 · in Docker, CoreOS, Google, Microsoft, Amazon to Develop Common Container Standard
  22. Open-source API Management KONG ( https://github.com/mashape/kong ), which is based on NGINX, uses the same workaround of Async wrapppers to make requests faster.
    comment by culo · 2015-06-19 · in Boosting Nginx Performance with Thread Pools
  23. This is neat. You might want to check out KONG ( https://github.com/Mashape/kong ) instead of putting a plain nginx in front of the containers/microservices. It is built on top of nginx too, but it provides all the extra functionality like…
    comment by fosk · 2015-06-17 · in Introducing Empire: A Self-Hosted PaaS Built on Docker and Amazon ECS
  24. Def missing KONG, open-source microservice management layer http://github.com/mashape/kong
    comment by culo · 2015-06-14 · in CiscoCloud Microservices Infrastructure
  25. What tools are you using to do API management on top? Have you seen the Open-Source KONG? http://github.com/mashape/kong
    comment by culo · 2015-06-10 · in How We Moved Our API From Ruby to Go
  26. all those help with the infrastructure part, take a look at http://github.com/mashape/kong for helping with the code.
    comment by sinzone · 2015-06-04 · in MonolithFirst
  27. …haven't seen it, please do contribute, comment or leave your feedback [1] https://mashape.com [2] https://github.com/Mashape/kong
    comment by orliesaurus · 2015-06-04 · in KONG Architectural choices: the API layer for microservices
  28. …to manage microservices so you don't re-build common functionalities across the stack. Repo: http://github.com/mashape/kong
    comment by sinzone · 2015-06-04 · in MonolithFirst
  29. …and authentication, in a few lines of code. [1] A month ago we've released Kong open source: https://github.com/Mashape/kong
    comment by sinzone · 2015-06-03 · in MonolithFirst
  30. Another interesting Lua project is Kong, which became the most popular open source API gateway http://github.com/mashape/kong
    comment by sinzone · 2015-05-31 · in Making a toy programming language in Lua, part 1
  31. …look into the open source Kong for managing your microservices http://getkong.org - Github repo https://github.com/mashape/kong
    comment by sinzone · 2015-05-29 · in Scaling Wix to 60M Users – From Monolith to Microservices
  32. …from Caddy but we just released Kong[1] which is specifically tailored to what you described. 1. https://github.com/Mashape/kong/
    comment by anonfunction · 2015-04-28 · in Show HN: Caddy, a cross-platform HTTP/2 web server
  33. …mode[1], the documentations[0] is well written. I'm impressed. [0] http://getkong.org/docs/ [1] https://github.com/Mashape/kong/releases
    comment by peeyek · 2015-04-28 · in Mashape Open-Sources Its Kong API Management Platform