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Event streaming allows companies to build more scalable and loosely coupled real-time applications supporting massive concurrency demands and simplifying the construction of services. Ultimately, we may need to grant access to such infrastructure to the most diverse entities, including external…
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Creating API design guidelines is a common practice for many enterprises. The goal? Ensuring that all teams involved in API development will adhere to them. However, this goal is often not achieved, as developers may not take the time to read, study, and apply these guidelines. To address this…
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In my previous post on scaling Kong deployments with and without a database , we covered the concepts of deploying Kong with and without a database, as well as using decK, distributed, and hybrid deployments. In this article, we take a tour of some of the possible Kubernetes deployments of Kong.…
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API gateways and load balancers are useful tools for building modern applications. While they have some functionality overlaps, they're distinct tools with different purposes and use cases. In this article, we'll discuss the differences between API gateways and load balancers, give examples of…
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In this article, we'll talk about the differences between an API gateway and an API proxy — as well as a reverse proxy. We'll cover use cases and when each might be the right tool for the project at hand, including the advantages of API gateways over API proxies and reverse proxies. An API…
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I once heard someone say, "What the cloud migration strategies lack at the moment is a methodology to Lift-and-Shift connections to the cloud." Let's digest that. In today's landscape, maintaining a competitive edge and delivering a high-quality customer experience is becoming synonymous with…
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At first glance, that does not make sense, right? The title suggests you should invest your DevOps/Platform team’s time in introducing a new product that most likely will: increase the complexity of your platform increase resource usage increase the cost of your platform Through this…
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As the world's most popular API Gateway , Kong Gateway is flexible and can be adapted to various environments and deployment configurations. This flexibility means some time should be taken to make good architectural decisions for the use cases in mind. For example, the best configuration for a…
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Real-time Data Analytics Platform from Zero to One At the beginning of 2021, a brand new data team was assembled to build a real-time data platform for Kong’s SaaS platform, Konnect. Our mission is to provide top-notch real-time API analytics features for Konnect customers. alt_text V1…
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In this blog we are going to learn about the technical challenges behind solving GraphQL authorization and how many organizations resolve it today. Then discuss how a Kong / OPA integration can help drive security standards in this space and bring some parity with REST API solutions. Last, we will…
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Application Modernization projects often require their workloads to run on multiple platforms which requires a hybrid model. Kong Konnect is an API lifecycle management platform delivered as a service. The Control Plane, responsible for admin tasks, is hosted in the cloud by Kong. The Data Plane,…
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Kong Konnect is a powerful SaaS-based API lifecycle management platform that provides a fast path for people looking to get started with Kong API Gateway. For existing users of Kong’s open-source gateway, it offers a way to rapidly take advantage of a scalable, highly-available architecture while…
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Red Hat OpenShift is the industry's leading enterprise Kubernetes platform that runs ubiquitously across on-prem, and the cloud. With Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) , a managed Red Hat OpenShift platform that runs natively on AWS, it is even easier to get kick-started on an…
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Developers will remember times when they were trying to figure out why something they were working on wasn’t behaving as expected. Hours of frustration, too much (or perhaps never enough) caffeine consumed, and sotto voce curses uttered. And then — as if by fate — the issue is narrowed down to a…
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In this post, we'll talk about what API SecOps is, including the fundamentals of it and the personas involved. Then, we'll discuss how API, microservice, and policy lifecycles integrate to produce a secure service in production, and why collaboration and API-First Design are essential for APISecOps…
[](/blog/engineering/apisecops)Secure your AI infrastructure with prompt guards, PII sanitization, and centralized governance. Control LLM costs with token-based rate limiting and semantic routing across providers.