This week on The Data Stack Show, Reza Shafii, vice president of products at Kong Inc. discusses open source projects and products with Kostas and Eric. Kong is a cloud connectivity company best known for being the creator and primary supporter of Kong, the most widely adopted open-source micro service API gateway.

Highlights from this week’s episode include:

• Being a self-proclaimed middleware geek (2:17)
• Middleware explained (5:41)
• Kong as a company, open source project, and a brand (10:44)
• Drawing the lines between the open source and property parts of a SaaS platform (24:22)
• Dealing with the extra friction in adopting middleware from the bottom up (33:02)

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