Integration across Kong Enterprise features One thing I like best about Konnect is that it centralizes how we manage APIs. We have several teams splitting their time across different services. Having one place to manage gateways, APIs, and access is very helpful. I also like how developers can self-serve a good amount of what they need without having to rely on the platform team.

Working mostly on the front end, I mainly interact with the APIs Kong Konnect manages, and it's made life easier just from a consumption side. The dev portal gives clear docs for each endpoint, so I am not constantly pinging the backend team to ask what a field means or what status code to expect. Response caching set up at the gateway level has also helped page load times noticeably on some of our data-heavy views without us touching the frontend code at all.

For me, the biggest advantage is having one centralized place to manage APIs, security policies, routing, and monitoring. The analytics are also useful because they help me quickly spot performance issues and better understand how our APIs are being used.