Shuttle vs Kong
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Rust-native cloud deployment platform provisioning infrastructure from code annotations in seconds; $6M YC-backed serving 20K+ developers across 130K+ deployments with Cursor and GitHub Copilot integration.
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Shuttle is a London-based cloud infrastructure platform enabling developers to deploy Rust applications from code to production in seconds with zero configuration — providing a Rust-native deployment platform where the infrastructure (databases, caches, secrets) is declared in the Rust code itself and provisioned automatically at deploy time. Backed by Y Combinator and Global Founders Capital with $6 million in seed funding, with notable angel investors including former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke and Segment founder Calvin French-Owen, Shuttle serves 20,000+ developers across 130,000+ deployments.
Open-source API gateway with enterprise platform; raised $170M+; built on NGINX handling authentication, rate limiting, load balancing, and security as a horizontal layer;
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Kong is an enterprise API management and service connectivity platform providing an API gateway, service mesh, and developer portal for organizations managing hundreds of microservices and APIs. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, Kong open-sourced its core gateway technology (Kong Gateway, built on NGINX and Lua/Go) which has become one of the most widely deployed API gateways globally, creating a large community and commercial base. The company has raised over $170 million in total funding from investors including Index Ventures, GGV Capital, and others.
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