KONG Becoming a King of API Gateways

Alex Kovalevych, Robert Buchanan, Daniel Lee, Chelsy Mooy, Xavier Bruhiere, Jose Ramon Huerga

ISBN: 9789386052742

178 pages

Description

By the end of this book, you will understand how to:

Use an API gateway to simplify and improve the security of your microservices architecture
Write Kong plugins with Lua
Deploy Kong and Cassandra in a multi-region environment
Use load balancing features

Alex Kovalevych is an experienced web developer from Kyiv, Ukraine. Having degrees in computer science and finance, he is a polyglot web developer, constantly learning and using cutting edge technologies.
Chelsy Mooy has been handling multiple SaaS for Finance projects as a CTO and Co - Founder of PT Thunderlabs Indonesia. She believes that well-constructed technology is a powerful “bunshin no jutsu."
Daniel Lee is a skilled engineer and is enthusiastic about tech. He really loves data science, cloud engineering, and service development.
Robert Buchanan is a passionate, forever learning software craftsman that picks the right tool for the right job. He is a polyglot engineer who has been in all aspects of the cycle as a UI developer, service developer, cloud engineer and performance analyst.
Xavier Bruhiere is a senior data engineer growing the Kpler team in Singapore. He has been crunching data since founding his own quantitative investment company and through startups in Paris.
Jose Ramon Huerga is an API Management and Microservices expert. During the 80s he was a teenage programmer and later in the 90s he earned a degree in computer science. He has been working in multiple fields, including SOA, QA, ECM, and CRM.