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API Gateways have become very popular for deploying APIs at scale because they sit between the client and the API server backend This enables all kinds of integrations without the need to modify the API code itself, and that’s exactly what Kong API Gateway excels at.

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NGINX first gained popularity as a fast and efficient web server with cache, load balancing and reverse proxy capabilities. With the evolution to NGINX Plus it gained additional capabilities, such as acting as an API Gateway with built in security controls. These security controls can be further extended via dynamic modules and we will utilise them to integrate Approov into the platform without changing any API code.