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Observability has become critical to ensuring the effective monitoring of application and system performance and health. It focuses on understanding a system’s internal state by analyzing the data it produces in the context of real-time events and actions across the infrastructure. Unlike…
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Software development has always evolved with new paradigms to meet the growing demands of modern systems. One of the most significant shifts has been the adoption of microservices. Emerging in the early 2010s, this architectural pattern moved away from monolithic applications in favor of smaller,…
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Understanding and monitoring the performance and health of applications and systems is critical. This is where observability comes into play. Observability is about gaining a comprehensive understanding of a system's internal state by analyzing the data it generates within the context of real-time…
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Earlier this year the Kong Konnect Analytics team was looking to leverage the stability and flexibility of our own Kong Gateway to handle the entire load of our Analytics ingest firehose. Almost all Konnect API traffic flows through a Kong Gateway and most of it has from the very beginning. For…
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This blog addresses the common challenges organizations face with fragmented API management in Kubernetes environments and presents Kong Konnect combined with the Kong Ingress Controller (KIC) as a comprehensive solution. We'll highlight the issues that arise when teams independently choose…
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Many organizations struggle with managing API gateways across multiple cloud environments. In this blog post, we'll explore how Kong Mesh can solve these challenges and enable seamless cross-cloud connectivity. Many large companies operate API gateways in multiple regions or cloud service…
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The focus of this blog is to provide step-by-step instructions for deploying and configuring Kong Mesh with Kong Konnect on an AWS ECS instance so that anyone will be able to get pre-production installation of Kong Mesh standing up on their own. Kong Konnect is an API lifecycle management platform…
[](/blog/engineering/kong-mesh-with-konnect-on-aws-ecs)Cloud native application development relies heavily on APIs. APIs have proven themselves as a scalable and efficient way to capture, deploy, and scale functionality. Consequently, APIs became a target for malicious actors to misuse. Therefore, building quality APIs with adequate security controls…
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In this blog post, we will explore how organizations can leverage Kong and OpenTelemetry to establish and monitor Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and manage error budgets more effectively. By tracking performance metrics and error rates against predefined thresholds, teams can prioritize their work…
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Ensuring secure access to applications and APIs is critical. As organizations increasingly adopt microservices architectures and cloud native solutions, the need for robust, fine-grained access control mechanisms becomes paramount. This is where the combination of Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Kong…
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We recently released Kong Gateway Operator 1.4 with support for managing Konnect entities from within the Kubernetes clusters. This means users can now manage their Konnect configurations declaratively, through Kubernetes resources powered by Kong’s Custom Resource Definition s. For example, here’s…
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Kong Konnect is Kong’s infrastructural SaaS solution. We run the control planes and API management applications for the data planes (API gateway and mesh) that are run by our customers to power their APIs. Some of the most critical traffic in the world goes through these data planes. The…
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We announced the Kong Premium Technology Partner Program at API Summit 2024, and Confluent was one of the first in the program. This initial development was all about ensuring that the relationship between Kong and Confluent — from a business and product perspective — fully represented our joint…
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Application programming interfaces (APIs) are everywhere, and they play a role in running nearly everything in our digital-centric lives. Each time you launch a web page or an app on your phone, dozens of API calls are happening in the background to render an experience heavily customized to you.…
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In this blog post, we'll talk about how to implement API product tiering, a powerful way to customize access, control usage, and monetize APIs. This model can help you scale efficiently while maintaining a smooth user experience. Read on to learn more! We'll be talking about how to implement API…
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