Mashape kong - please explain what it is for, what is it?

Question

Nginx

Please, on your fingers, explain to those who do not understand what it is and why it is needed in an understandable language?

Answer 1

You don't need it

Answer 2

kong is a platform for building APIs. For example, when your architecture is based on micro-services, you will need to access services at a specific url, as well as support versioning.
In addition:
1. authorization protocols
2. traffic control (both the number of requests and their size)
3. the ability to subscribe users to different APIs and control the subscription
4. analytics
5. canary releases (i.e. when changes are rolled out to certain users for test)
Here you can see a list of various sub-systems: https://docs.konghq.com/hub/?_ga=2.266231951.10049...