Kong

Enterprise API Gateway & Management

About Our Kong Practice

Kong is the world's most popular open-source API gateway. Sort Tree's certified Kong consultants help enterprises design, deploy, and operate Kong Gateway and Kong Mesh at scale. Whether you're migrating from a legacy API management platform, designing a new microservices architecture, or optimising an existing Kong deployment, our team brings deep hands-on expertise to every engagement. We cover the full lifecycle: architecture design, deployment automation, custom plugin development, security policy enforcement, observability integration, and day-two operations. Our engineers have delivered Kong implementations across financial services, retail, healthcare, and telecommunications.

Our Capabilities

Kong Gateway deployment and configuration (on-premises, cloud, hybrid)

Case Studies

Real results from real engagements.

Global Bank A

Financial Services

Challenge: Legacy API gateway unable to handle 50,000 requests per second during month-end batch processing, causing timeouts and cascading failures across downstream services.
Our Approach: Sort Tree designed a multi-zone Kong Gateway deployment with active-active load balancing, custom rate-limiting plugins, and a zero-downtime migration strategy that moved traffic incrementally over six weeks.
Outcome: The bank achieved 99.99% uptime during subsequent peak periods, reduced API latency by 60%, and eliminated all month-end processing outages.

Key Results

60% reduction in API latency
99.99% uptime during peak processing periods
Zero-downtime migration completed in 6 weeks
Handles 50,000+ requests per second without degradation