What language is Kong written in?

Lua
KONG is written in Lua over OpenResty (nginx) and has been designed to act as a gateway for HTTP requests while providing logging, authentication, rate-limiting and much much more thorough plugins. As of today, all plugins are written in Lua.

What is the purpose of Lua?

As the primary focus on Lua is for scripting, it is rarely used as a standalone programming language. Instead, it is used as a scripting language that can be integrated (embedded) into other programs written in mainly C and C++. It also supports other programming languages via third-party plugins (NLua/KeraLua for .

Why is Lua so good?

Lua has an extremely clean simple design and a small API. I think this is the reason that it has the world’s fastest JIT implementation for a dynamic scripting language. Lua is extremely popular within the gaming market because of its speed (see also speed compared to python).

Is Lua written in C++?

Lua is written in C, the whole Lua API is C based. Hence converting Lua into the C++ world would seem rather difficult, but Lua does provide abilities to do this.

Is Kong based on NGINX?

Kong is built on NGINX, and uses Lua to implement its API functionality, whereas the API Management Module relies completely on native, high‑performance capabilities that are implemented as NGINX Plus modules.

What is Kong NGINX?

The Kong Server, built on top of NGINX, is the server that will actually process the API requests and execute the configured plugins to provide additional functionalities to the underlying APIs before proxying the request upstream. Kong listens on several ports that must allow external traffic and are by default: 8000.

Is Kong a load balancer?

Kong provides two strategies of load balancing requests to backend services: a dynamic ring-balancer, and a straightforward DNS-based method.

What is Kong konnect?

Kong Konnect Enterprise is a service connectivity platform that provides technology teams at multi-cloud and hybrid organizations the architectural freedom to build APIs and services anywhere. Fuel your innovation engine by providing an internal developer platform built for distributed architectures.

What is Kong service?

Kong Inc. is a software company offering open-source platforms and cloud services to manage, monitor and scale Application Programming Interfaces and Microservices.