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Kong Cloud has been using StatsD and Prometheus heavily in monitoring and metrics collecting. In this blog post we discuss the use case of StatsD and Prometheus on Kong Cloud, the performance problem we found, and the way we proposed to solve it. StatsD is a metrics server that accepts events from…
[](/blog/engineering/optimizing-prometheus-statsd-exporter-for-scale)Over the past few months, you may have noticed the explosion of industry chatter and articles surrounding service mesh and the future of software architecture. These discussions have been highly polarizing, with tribes forming around specific vendors. While this partisan trend is to be expected,…
[](/blog/engineering/service-mesh-new-pattern-not-new-technology)As part of our series helping you get up to speed on the new features released in Kong CE 0.14 , we want to dive into one of our most exciting and long-awaited features - Dynamic Injection for Nginx Directives. This new feature enables Kong users to easily exercise greater control over their Nginx…
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Developers are turning to microservices in greater numbers to help break through the inflexibility of old monolithic applications. Microservices offer many benefits, including separation of concerns, team autonomy, fault tolerance, and scaling across multiple regions for high availability. Learn…
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This is the second of two blogs examining considerations for transitioning to a microservices-based architecture. For more information, check out our e-book Blowing Up the Monolith: Adopting a Microservices-Based Architecture . In our previous blog, we outlined the five questions we must consider…
[](/blog/engineering/transition-to-microservices-what-now)When we build software, it's critical that we test and roll-out the software in a controlled manner. To make sure this happens, we make use of available tools and best practices to make sure that the software works as intended. We conduct code reviews, execute all the possible unit, integration,…
[](/blog/engineering/reducing-deployment-risk-canary-releases-blue-green-deployments-kong)Starting with Kong CE 0.13 and the upcoming EE 0.32, it is possible to separate control and data planes in a Kong cluster. So what are those planes? The control plane is how we instrument the system (pushing configs, fetching logs), whereas the data plane is the traffic that is actually being…
[](/blog/engineering/separating-data-control-planes)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.