APIs have become an aspect of how software systems interact with each other. As more businesses embrace APIs, it continues to become crucial to handle and oversee them to ensure a dependable integration process between applications. API management encompasses the tools and services for publishing,…
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I once heard someone say, "What the cloud migration strategies lack at the moment is a methodology to Lift-and-Shift connections to the cloud." Let's digest that. In today's landscape, maintaining a competitive edge and delivering a high-quality customer experience is becoming synonymous with…
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Acting as an intermediary between a client and an API , the API proxy offers a centralized entry point to the API. It does this while augmenting it with new features such as security, caching, or rate limiting all without necessitating any modifications to the API itself. What's more, this…
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Today we're pleased to announce a new strategic partnership and resale agreement with Imperva . Imperva customers will now be able to directly license Kong Enterprise, the fastest, most feature-rich, and secure API management solution. In addition, Kong customers will be able to use the Imperva API…
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As we continue to push the boundaries of API management, we're excited to announce the beta release of Kong Ingress Controller within Kong Konnect. Revealed at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023, this new integration turns Kong Konnect into the world’s first modern unified end-to-end API…
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At Kong, our mission is to deliver the best API lifecycle management experience for the cloud native era. Driven by our dedication to meeting the dynamic demands of modern end-to-end API management, we've introduced an array of new Kong Konnect features in April, enhancing functionality and…
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We’re excited to announce the release of Kong Mesh and Kuma 2.2. This new minor release adds some long-awaited enterprise features, more incremental improvements to our UI and policies, and many more minor features and bug fixes. In order to take advantage of the latest and greatest in service…
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At first glance, that does not make sense, right? The title suggests you should invest your DevOps/Platform team’s time in introducing a new product that most likely will: increase the complexity of your platform increase resource usage increase the cost of your platform Through this…
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As the world's most popular API Gateway , Kong Gateway is flexible and can be adapted to various environments and deployment configurations. This flexibility means some time should be taken to make good architectural decisions for the use cases in mind. For example, the best configuration for a…
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The ability to rapidly assemble and reassemble APIs and microservices has become a competitive differentiator across all industries — allowing organizations to pivot business models and deliver amazing customer experiences at speed and scale. Innovative organizations are pushing to become agile and…
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At Kong, we're always looking to expand the experience of running our products in the AWS cloud. As we steadily move into 2023, we want to continue this streak because we see firsthand the tremendous growth and success it provides our customers. Today, we're excited to announce that the Kong API…
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We're happy to announce the release of Kong Ingress Controller (KIC) 2.9, in which we've taken significant steps towards solution extensibility, deployment flexibility, and lowering the cost of ownership. [iframe loading="lazy" title="What's new in Kong Ingress Controller 2.9 - Gateway Discovery…
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Real-time Data Analytics Platform from Zero to One At the beginning of 2021, a brand new data team was assembled to build a real-time data platform for Kong’s SaaS platform, Konnect. Our mission is to provide top-notch real-time API analytics features for Konnect customers. alt_text V1…
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In this blog we are going to learn about the technical challenges behind solving GraphQL authorization and how many organizations resolve it today. Then discuss how a Kong / OPA integration can help drive security standards in this space and bring some parity with REST API solutions. Last, we will…
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Application Modernization projects often require their workloads to run on multiple platforms which requires a hybrid model. Kong Konnect is an API lifecycle management platform delivered as a service. The Control Plane, responsible for admin tasks, is hosted in the cloud by Kong. The Data Plane,…
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