Kong

Kong is the creator of the world's most popular open-source API gateway. As modern software engineering moves away from massive, clunky monolithic codebases and breaks applications down into smaller 'microservices,' developers suddenly have hundreds of different APIs talking to each other at once. Kong sits right in the middle of all this data exchange. It acts as an ultra-fast, highly scalable orchestration layer that intelligently routes API requests, enforces security protocols, and monitors traffic across any cloud environment or local server.