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Re:Mashape Open-Sources Its Kong API Management Platform by narsil on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @12:59PM (#9453706)
Nice to see more open-source solutions in this area. I've used the popular Django Rest Framework [1] to implement and manage APIs. Would there be a compelling reason to use Kong for the management aspect?

[1] http://www.django-rest-framework.org

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Re:Mashape Open-Sources Its Kong API Management Platform by nijiko on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @01:15PM (#9453813)
You no longer have to code certain features into your API and can let Kong handle it for you :)

Saving you time and money!

   Some features: http://getkong.org/plugins/
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Re:Mashape Open-Sources Its Kong API Management Platform by codeinchaos on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @01:18PM (#9453829)
you would use both.

Django REST Framework (or any other framework) to build your business logic and API services.

Kong is useful to scale and manage acceess to the API for API consumers (as oppose to end users) as well as a plugin system that abstracts HTTP tooling away from your API application, so you can scale them independently.

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