Putting Kong in front of a legacy SOAP estate
You rarely get to rewrite a legacy SOAP estate on the schedule the business wants. An API gateway buys you time: a place to add authentication, rate limiting and observability without touching the downstream services.
What the gateway gives you
Kong sits in front of the existing services and becomes the single point where policy is applied. New consumers integrate against clean, documented endpoints while the SOAP services keep running unchanged behind them.
- Centralise auth and rate limiting at the edge.
- Expose REST or GraphQL facades over SOAP backends.
- Get per-route metrics without instrumenting legacy code.
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