Lua · Apache-2.0

Kong/kong

🦍 The API and AI Gateway

★ 44.4k

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5.2k forks · 228 open issues

+5.4/day

Growth · measured

Stars counted between two of our own snapshots roughly a week apart. The repository page gives the exact span.

48.6

Momentum / 100

see the breakdown below

11y ago

Created

last push 20d ago

Star history

2026-10-10 44.3k → 44.4k stars +100 over 26 days 2026-11-05

Component	Weight	Earned	Why
Velocity	55	15.5	+5.4/day, log-scaled against a 750/day ceiling
Acceleration	15	6.2	last week ran 1.41× the monthly pace
Freshness	15	13.6	last push 20d ago; decays to zero at 180 days
Scale	15	13.5	44.4k stars, log-scaled against 150k — stops a 3-star repo topping the board
Momentum	100	48.6	sum of the above

Topics	aiai-gatewayapi-gatewayapi-managementapisartificial-intelligencecloud-nativedevopskuberneteskubernetes-ingresskubernetes-ingress-controllerllm-gatewayllm-opsmcpmcp-gatewaymicroservicemicroservicesopenai-proxyreverse-proxyserverless
Matched on	Agent Skills & MCP (mcp) Dev Tools (devops, kubernetes)
Short window	+38 stars over 7 days = 5.4/day
Long window	+100 stars over 26 days = 3.8/day
Lifetime average	10.15 stars/day over 4,371 days
First seen here	2026-10-11
Last read	2d ago