Kong Inc. is a software company that provides open-source platforms and cloud services for managing, monitoring, and scaling application programming interfaces (APIs) and microservices.
The original project was a mash-up (web application hybrid) platform used to aggregate different functions and UI elements from third-party products and services.
In November 2010 Mashape appeared online as an Alpha product[1] and launched in private Beta in June 2011.
[6] In 2015 Mashape launched an open source project called Kong, which later helped the company secure an $18 million in Series B funding.
[11] In 2015, Mashape released Kong, an open-source management layer for APIs and Microservices that is built on top of Nginx and Cassandra/PostgreSQL with the claim of improving performance and reliability.