In October, we hosted a total of 11 Meetups all around the globe — an absolute record for us! Kong handles 400 billion API calls a day. That's a lot of API calls. And that means there are a lot of you around the world using Kong. From San Francisco to Dubai, Kong has…
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Kong Mesh has been named a Leader and Outperformer in the 2023 GigaOm® Radar for Service Mesh report. We feel this awesome achievement highlights Kong's ongoing commitment to innovation and ease of use in the service mesh space. The GigaOm Radar report is a market analysis focused on identifying…
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In this post, we’ll see how ChatGPT can be used to reinvigorate APIs by creating an OpenAPI specification for an existing API that has existing documentation. ChatGPT , developed by OpenAI , has generated attention for its natural language processing capabilities. ChatGPT is based on machine…
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As of December 2023, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.1.x.x will be going End Of Life and out of the Full Support cycle. Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.1.x.x will enter Sunset Support until December 2024. As a reminder, Kong Gateway Enterprise versions have 12 months of Full Support and a subsequent 12 months…
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API gateways serve as the final checkpoint for your APIs. As such, gateway configuration is critical to ensuring that your APIs remain secure, available, and responsive. Ensuring that all changes to these configurations are intentional and follow your organization's best practices is key to…
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The latest release of Kong Mesh (version 2.5) brings many new features that push the envelope and make Kong Mesh the logical choice of a service mesh to meet your objectives. In this blog, we'll break down these new features and provide tailored use cases to illustrate how Kong Mesh 2.5 can elevate…
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In token-based architecture, tokens represent the client’s entitlement to access protected resources. Access tokens (or bearer tokens as they're commonly known) are issued by authorization servers after successful user authentication. The tokens are passed as credentials in the request to the…
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Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.5 is packed with security features to support the use cases demanded by our enterprise customers through major improvements in Secrets Management integrations and our Open-ID Connect (OIDC) plugin. Additionally, we’ve added key security updates for a few of our AWS…
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We’re excited to announce the general availability of Kong Gateway 3.5 for Open Source (OSS). This release enables Javascript developers to extend the Gateway via the WebAssembly layer which is currently in Beta, delivers some enormous observability enhancements, and unlocks top-end performance.…
[](/blog/product-releases/kong-gateway-3-5)APIs have become a crucial part of modern software architecture, allowing different applications and services to communicate with each other. As organizations adopt microservices and distribute their systems, they require a cohesive API platform to manage these complex environments. In this blog…
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Kong is expanding its global footprint with a new joint venture in Japan. In partnership with Japan Cloud — a Tokyo-based consultancy that helps high-growth cloud companies to succeed in Japan — Kong is establishing a local subsidiary in Tokyo to accelerate growth in the Japanese market. Japan…
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The Kubernetes Gateway API represents a massive collaborative effort and key advancement in Kubernetes networking. Developed by multiple vendors and community members, the Gateway API provides a robust and extensible new standard for managing ingress traffic. With the recent general availability of…
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We are excited to announce the latest minor release of Kuma 2.5.0. We’re in the last stride of publishing this release, but I believe the features we’re landing are important enough to start teasing you about it. Let’s focus on three main features: Kong recently launched Kong Mesh Manager , the…
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In the Kubernetes world, the Ingress API has been the longstanding staple for getting access to your Services from outside your cluster network. Ingress has served us well over the years and can be found present in several dozen different implementations, but as time has passed and Kubernetes has…
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Kubernetes took the world by storm in 2014. A CLI-first experience, containers as a first-class citizen, and a need to dynamically scale workloads meant that Kubernetes was the right choice for many teams moving to the cloud. By late 2015, the community realized that there needed to be a standard…
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