The joy (and sometimes woe) of working in technology is that we're forever learning. The software stack is constantly changing, so innovators come to embrace a lifetime of learning. In this ever-evolving IT landscape, measurable skills have become the global currency for IT professionals. In this…
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OAuth (short for Open Authorization) is a popular, standardized API protocol that provides a secure way for services to quickly share resources for a seamless user experience. Examples of OAuth in action include giving a greeting card service access to your photo library to make a custom holiday…
[](/blog/learning-center/what-is-oauth)Kong’s open-source API Gateway is a highly successful project with over 33k stars on GitHub and 293 contributors. Kong provides a powerful platform that can be extended using hundreds of plugins provided by Kong, ecosystem partners, and the community. Kong’s Enterprise subscription provides an…
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Hayden Lam also contributed to this post. Today we’re thrilled to announce new features in Kong Konnect , including secrets management, support for Kong Gateway 3.1, Analytics updates, runtime group APIs, system accounts, and an intuitive overview page and service wizard. In this blog, we'll…
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2022 is coming to a close, and what better way to end the year than a list for list's sake? As we reflect on the year passing, here are the top five Kong moments of 2022 as decided by me (because all the people more important than me are already on vacation). Read on!…
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Kuma is configurable through policies. These enable users to configure their service mesh with retries, timeouts, observability, and more. Policies contain three main pieces of information: Which proxies are being configured What traffic for these proxies this configuration applies to (i.e:…
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We're excited to announce the general availability of Kong Insomnia 2022.7. This update brings several new capabilities into the fold with a focus on improving API quality and driving productivity. Read on to learn more about what's new in Kong Insomnia. Providing a streamlined, developer-friendly…
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IBM recently announced the deprecation of its Cloud API Gateway, a service used to create and manage APIs by placing a gateway in front of existing IBM Cloud endpoints. With this move, IBM Cloud Functions and IBM Cloud Foundry are no longer able to use Cloud API Gateway service for rate limiting,…
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What is SAML? Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an XML-based open standard that allows organizations to set up single sign-on (SSO) across multiple websites and applications. SAML 2.0 is the latest standard, and was ratified in March 2005, replacing SAML 1.1. We’ll refer to SAML as…
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We're excited to announce new features in Kong Konnect that are designed to increase security and streamline API management. Read on to learn more about what's new in Kong Konnect. Now you can give your users secure and fine-grained access to track analytics and monitoring information in Kong…
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We're excited to announce the general availability of Kong Enterprise 3.1. In Kong Enterprise 3.1, we build on the foundation of our plugin ecosystem by introducing five new plugins and enhancing the functionality of existing ones. These include: We'll explore the ins and outs of each of these…
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As an application developer, have you ever had to troubleshoot an issue that only happens in production? Bugs can occur when your application gets released into the wild, and they can be extremely difficult to debug when you cannot reproduce without production data. In this blog, I am going to show…
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Kong connects APIs and microservices natively within clouds, data centers, and Kubernetes platforms using intelligent automation. Built on an open source core, Kong's solutions enable digital innovation by allowing organizations to reliably and securely manage the full lifecycle of APIs for legacy…
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For the third consecutive year, we're happy to announce that Kong has been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management and is positioned furthest to the right for Completeness of Vision. This graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger…
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In the Dev Portal world, offering users the ability to use their own domain is a milestone on our way to fully customized Dev Portals. Since Konnect-hosted portals are fronted by a Kong gateway, we looked to use our own plugins to achieve this feature. The ACME plugin is an open-source Kong plugin…
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