🆚 Kong Gateway vs. Varnish
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 Varnish is much more popular than Kong Gateway.
- 🌍 Varnish is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Kong Gateway is particularly popular in Germany.
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Kong Gateway is an API gateway that manages, secures, and routes API traffic using a cloud-native, platform-agnostic architecture.
It provides request proxying, routing, load balancing, health checks, authentication, rate limiting, and observability features, and can be extended through plugins written in Lua, Go, or JavaScript.
Varnish Cache is an open-source web application accelerator, also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy.
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- ⭐ 5th most popular in Russia in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in China in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Germany in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Brazil in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in China in the Tools category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Denmark in the Load Balancers category.
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