Kong is making an attempt to make Kafka extra approachable to builders by lowering the complexity of managing it by way of its newly launched Kong Occasion Gateway.
The brand new platform permits builders to “expose, handle, and safe real-time occasion streams from Apache Kafka as Konnect-managed APIs and companies.”
In response to Kong, it will allow builders to construct data-based merchandise that depend on occasion streams with out having to be consultants themselves in occasion streams. The platform supplies entry to self-service occasion API infrastructure, permitting builders to simply provision the API sources that they want.
Kong Occasion Gateway additionally supplies role-based entry management, authorization, and encryption capabilities throughout APIs and occasions.
Moreover, based on Kong, the platform will assist organizations cut back the infrastructure prices of operating Kafka by means of virtualized clusters or matters.
“The flexibility to course of real-time occasion knowledge is crucial to many organizations, significantly within the monetary, IoT and e-commerce house. We’re bringing the identical governance, observability and safety capabilities our clients leverage for APIs, microservices and AI to occasions,” mentioned Marco Palladino, CTO and co-founder of Kong.
