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We all know that what customers see in the market is, in fact, only a small percent of the shifts happening within our organizations. Recently, Time Magazine stated that "Every Company is a Tech Company… The Disruption is Just Beginning." We're seeing it in the way we wait in lines, find places to…
Razorpay is a payments processor that's required to comply with PCI guidelines . This article will explain how we developed a custom Lua plugin to simplify PCI compliance with Kong Gateway . The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) is a set of requirements to ensure that all…
The demand for digital transformation has accelerated, with 62% of technology leaders sharing that they fear they are at risk of being displaced by competitors who innovate more quickly. Enterprises are increasingly transitioning from monolithic to microservices architecture, with the goal to…
Multi-cloud infrastructure is changing the way companies approach their software architecture. What started solely as gateway traffic management has evolved into full lifecycle API management . I recently sat down with Reza Shafii, Kong's VP of product, for a blog series where we explore how full…
Operating APIs and microservices at scale relies on the right processes and company culture. APIOps is the name for this overall approach. If done right, organizations can accelerate digital business with APIOps. It combines modern automation tooling with best practice engineering principles to…
President Biden issued an " Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity " (Executive Order 14028) as of May 12, 2021. The order includes numerous actions and mandates to confront the dangers of cyber attacks that are increasing in frequency and sophistication. Cybersecurity has real and…
One of the most powerful capabilities provided by Kong Konnect API Cloud Platform is the support for Hybrid deployments. In other words, it implements distributed API Gateway Clusters with multiple instances running on several environments at the same time. Moreover, Kong Enterprise provides a new…
While organizations work to innovate with new services and offerings, silos can lead to inefficient pockets, restricting the ability to take incubation projects to market. This can limit the speed and efficiency to scale the new offering. So how does your organization offer a scalable platform to…
This article was written by Jeremy Justus and Ross Sbriscia, senior software engineers from UnitedHealth Group/Optum. This blog post is part three of a three-part series on how they've scaled their API management with Kong Gateway , the world's most popular open source API gateway. (Here's part
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the culture change side of any technology transformation program is the hardest and slowest part to get right. If you cannot efficiently operationalize a technology investment, that investment is wasted. This is no different in the world of APIs and…
This article was written by Jeremy Justus and Ross Sbriscia, senior software engineers from UnitedHealth Group/Optum. This blog post is part two of a three-part series on how we've scaled our API management with Kong Gateway , the world's most popular open source API gateway. (Here’s part one…
This article was written by Jeremy Justus and Ross Sbriscia, senior software engineers from UnitedHealth Group/Optum. As part of the UnitedHealth Group (UHG), Optum optimizes healthcare technology, and one of our important missions is to provide the tech infrastructure for this Fortune 7 healthcare…
This article was written by Charles Boicey, Chief Innovation Officer at Clearsense. If healthcare data is genuinely going to impact a person’s well-being, we have to consider all patient data. Patients don’t spend much time with clinicians allowing them to collect data. Even most hospitalized…
We're in the middle of the golden age of innovation that's creating absolutely astounding achievements. Within 10 years, Elon will land people on Mars , Germany won't have any gasoline cars on the road , and you'll be able to use more of your senses in virtual reality . This blade cuts both ways…
Transitioning to microservices has many advantages for teams building large applications that must accelerate the pace of innovation, deployments and time to market. It also provides them the opportunity to secure their applications and services better than they did with monolithic codebases.…