Not to take anything away from Kong's accomplishment but this article was written 2 months ago. Here's the Press Release from Kong dated March 28th 2019:<p><a href="https://konghq.com/press-release/kong-raises-43-million" rel="nofollow">https://konghq.com/press-release/kong-raises-43-million</a>
As someone who works as a software developer in Japan this is awesome. Kong is one of the few companies allowing remote work even outside of North America so I'm glad to see that they're growing.
When I first read the headline, I was surprised that the same maker of my dog's ultra-tough chew toys [1] was branching into tech B2B.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.kongcompany.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.kongcompany.com/</a>
Happy for them. I know that Kong uses openResty with which I have worked and I hope some of that money goes into it.<p>On another topic, why would I use Kong instead of it's competitors built on envoy and with higher integration with kubernetes? Maturity?