Talk tech with tips and tutorials from builders at Kong and the Kong Community.
Since the early ’90s, computer users and businesses have used Adobe's venerable PDF format as the de facto choice for digital documents where portability and advanced features such as form-filling, digital signatures, and accurate rendering is important. First announced on January 1993 in San Jose,…
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Recently, I came across a request from one of our community users looking for a Kong plugin that could look up address details based on a few location search keywords. There are many libraries that support geocoding. I decided to pick up a Python Library as they are simple to use — and the…
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In our previous post , we discussed the benefits and drawbacks of two of the most popular API models - REST and gRPC. In this post, we'll highlight the final API model in our series, GraphQL. Finally, we’ll recap our learnings with a side-by-side comparison of REST, gRPC and GraphQL. GraphQL is an…
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In this Kongcast episode , Henrik Blixt, Product Manager for Argo at Intuit, gives an introduction to Argo, an open source tool for Kubernetes and incubating project of CNCF. Check out the transcript and video from our conversation below, and be sure to subscribe to get email alerts for the latest…
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Recently, I was fortunate to have an insightful conversation with Matt Klein, Lyft software engineer and creator of Envoy , the popular open-source edge and service proxy for cloud-native applications. Envoy was the third project to graduate from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF),…
[](/blog/engineering/platform-based-future-matt-klein)In this Kongcast episode , Josh Long, Spring Developer Advocate at VMware, dives into how Spring changed the way developers build Java applications and introduces you to Spring Native. Check out the transcript and video from our conversation below, and be sure to subscribe to get email alerts for…
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The proliferation of microservices has led to many new innovative approaches in the software world. However, building robust, quality APIs that consistently deliver the business outcomes you desire can be a complex task. It's no wonder a recent survey of organizations adopting microservices found…
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The quest for resilience and agility has driven us into the modern age of microservices. Bringing services to market on a microservice architecture demands the utilization of sprawling technology offerings and tooling. While daunting at first glance, we can break down the process into 3 major…
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We understand that our customers need to deploy Kong in a variety of environments and with different deployment mode needs. That is why two years ago, in Kong 1.1, we introduced DB-less mode, the ability to run Kong without the need of connecting to a database. We then demonstrated the Hybrid mode…
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It's not uncommon for organizations to have to deploy solutions across (or among) multiple security domains. Here, we use the term "security domain" to refer to a segregated network environment, like a restricted internal network or a DMZ. This post will explore some design considerations when…
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In applications built on a system of microservices , developers should always be on the lookout for opportunities to eliminate unnecessary use of resources, such as database queries, network hops or service requests. API gateway cache (or response caching) is an excellent place to start. For many…
[](/blog/engineering/api-gateway-cache)In this episode of Kongcast , Matt Stratton , a staff developer advocate at Pulumi , explains the history of configuration automation, the world of cloud engineering and how it compares to DevOps. Check out the transcript and video from our conversation below, and be sure to subscribe to get email…
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Insomnia is a fast and lightweight open source desktop application that doubles as a tool for API design and testing and as an API client for making HTTP requests. It has built-in support for REST Client , gRPC and GraphQL . All of that is just what you get out of the box. Many…
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From the modern application platform perspective, products should allow architects and DevOps teams to support dynamic topologies. That means a multi-platform capability is required but not sufficient. In fact, for several reasons, companies are looking for hybrid deployments to run their…
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Ready to speed up your Kong Lua custom plugin development process? 1. Before diving into this post, make sure you're familiar with the basics of plugin development and have gone through the basics described in our Kong documentation . Now, let's dive in…here are the best practices for Kong custom…
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