Kong is a cloud-native, fast, scalable, and distributed Microservice Abstraction Layer (also known as an API Gateway, API Middleware or in some cases Service Mesh). Backed by the battle-tested NGINX with a focus on high performance, Kong was made available as an open-source platform in 2015. Under active development, Kong is used in production at thousands of organizations from startups, Global 5000 and Government organizations.
 
If you are building for web, mobile or IoT (Internet of Things) you will likely end up needing common functionality to run your actual software. Kong can help by acting as a gateway (or a sidecar) for microservices requests while providing load balancing, logging, authentication, rate-limiting and more through plugins.
 
Its features include: 
<ul>
<li>Cloud-Native: Platform agnostic, Kong can run from bare metal to
Kubernetes.</li>
<li>Dynamic Load Balancing: Load balance traffic across multiple backend
services.</li>
<li>Service Discovery: Resolve SRV records in third-party DNS resolvers like
Consul.</li>
<li>Serverless: Invoke and secure AWS Lambda or OpenWhisk fuctions directly
from Kong.</li>
<li>WebSockets: Communicate to your upstream services via WebSockets.</li>
<li>OAuth2.0: Easily add OAuth2.0 authentication to your APIs.</li>
<li>Logging: Log requests and responses to your system over HTTP, TCP, UDP,
or to disk.</li>
<li>Security: ACL, Bot detection, whitelist/blacklist IPs, etc...</li>
<li>Syslog: Logging to System log.</li>
<li>SSL: Setup a Specific SSL Certificate for an underlying service or API.</li>
<li>Monitoring: Live monitoring provides key load and performance server
metrics.</li>
<li>Authentications: HMAC, JWT, Basic, and more.</li>
<li>Rate-limiting: Block and throttle requests based on many variables.</li>
<li>Transformations: Add, remove, or manipulate HTTP requests and responses.</li>
<li>Caching: Cache and serve responses at the proxy layer.</li>
<li>CLI: Control your Kong cluster from the command line.</li>
<li>REST API: Kong can be operated with its RESTful API for maximum
flexibility.</li>
<li>Geo-Replicated: Configs are always up-to-date across different regions.</li>
<li>Failure Detection &amp; Recovery: Kong is unaffected if one of your Cassandra
nodes goes down.</li>
<li>Clustering: All Kong nodes auto-join the cluster keeping their config
updated across nodes.</li>
<li>Scalability: Distributed by nature, Kong scales horizontally by simply
adding nodes.</li>
<li>Performance: Kong handles load with ease by scaling and using NGINX at
the core.</li>
<li>Plugins: Extendable architecture for adding functionality to Kong and
APIs.</li>
</ul>

Kong is a cloud-native, fast, scalable, and distributed Microservice Abstraction Layer (also known as an API Gateway, API Middleware or in some cases Service Mesh). Backed by the battle-tested NGINX with a focus on high performance, Kong was made available as an open-source platform in 2015. Under active development, Kong is used in production at thousands of organizations from startups, Global 5000 and Government organizations.

Kong - The Microservice API Gateway 

Light 4j is a fast, lightweight and cloud native microservices framework. Light means lightweight, lighting fast and shed light on how to program with modern Java SE. It is 44 times faster than the most popular microservices platform Spring Boot embedded Tomcat and use only 1/5 of memory. 
Its features include: 
<ul>
<li>Plugin architecture for startup/shutdown hooks and middleware components</li>
<li>Distributed OAuth2 JWT security verification as part of the framework</li>
<li>Request and response validation against OpenAPI specification at runtime</li>
<li>Metrics collected in influxdb and viewed from Grafana Dashboard for both services and clients</li>
<li>Global exception handling for runtime exception, api exception and other checked exceptions</li>
<li>Mask sensitive data like credit card, sin number etc. before logging</li>
<li>Sanitize cross site scripting for query parameters, request headers and body</li>
<li>Audit to dump important info or entire request and response.</li>
<li>Body parser to support different content types</li>
<li>Standardized response code and messages from configuration file</li>
<li>Externalized configuration for all modules for dockerized environment</li>
<li>CORS pre-flight handler for SPA (Angular or React) from another domain</li>
<li>Rate limiting for services that exposed outside to the Internet</li>
<li>Service registry and discovery support direct, Consul and Zookeeper</li>
<li>Client side discovery and load balance to eliminate proxies</li>
<li>A client module that is tightly integrated with Light-OAuth2 and supports traceability</li>
</ul>

Light 4j is a fast, lightweight and cloud native microservices framework. Light means lightweight, lighting fast and shed light on how to program with modern Java SE. It is 44 times faster than the most popular microservices platform Spring Boot embedded Tomcat and use only 1/5 of memory.

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