Kong API Summit has come and gone! Whether you joined us in San Francisco or missed this year's big shindig, here are some of the highlights from the event and a round-up of all the Kong news dropped over the past two days. Kong Summit 2022 was back in-person after two years of digital-only…
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Christian Heidenreich and Sunny Xia also contributed to this post. We're excited to announce a new release of Kong Konnect , the end-to-end SaaS API lifecycle management platform. This release introduces a number of brand new features as well as improve existing features that empower you to…
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Kong Gateway 3.0 is an important milestone that introduces the next evolution of our cloud-native API platform . Both the enterprise and open source editions of Kong Gateway 3.0 are available now from your favorite distribution channels . With Kong Gateway 3.0, we are introducing many powerful…
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As companies are transforming themselves to compete in the cloud era, there's renewed emphasis on delivering seamless customer experience, improving IT infrastructure, and releasing applications faster. As companies embark on the cloud adoption journey, Red Hat OpenShift gives developers a greater…
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Kong has been hard at work to provide our customers' the best user experience of running our products in the AWS cloud. We've seen tremendous growth in our partnership with AWS in terms of joint solutions (co-build), building awareness through events and workshops (co-market), and growth in the…
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At Kong Summit this year, we announced the general availability of Kong Ingress Controller (KIC) 2.6. Today we are excited to announce the release of KIC 2.7 with even more features and improvements. Earlier this year, we launched KIC 2.2 with initial support for Kubernetes Gateway API . Since…
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Jeff Broberg, William Seaton and Peter Sullivan from Styra also contributed to this post API Gateway Authentication (AuthN) and Authorization (AuthZ) are important ways to control the data that is allowed to be transmitted using your APIs. Basically, it checks that a particular identity has…
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There are many pros and cons for both GraphQL and REST APIs, but one of the areas where GraphQL really shines is API composition. Taking data from multiple APIs and combining them to make something new is a key part of delivering a useful service. Today, we're going to take a look at StepZen…
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Security best practices remain a top priority for enterprises, especially as high-profile hacks and cybersecurity breaches pose increased risks. According to the 2022 Morgan Stanley CIO survey , IT spending is expected to reach 4.4%, with cloud computing and security software as the leading…
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There are lots of engineering blogs that showcase product features like a tourist destination described in a travel agency brochure, but not enough stories about how the feature came to be, from starting point to the destination, like a travelogue. Today I’m recounting the story of how I added…
[](/blog/engineering/around-v8-in-seventy-days-bringing-a-new-vm-to-wasmx)Our latest release of Kong Konnect augments the security and compliance of the offering through enhanced authentication capabilities. Through the rest of this post, we’ll walk you through each of these features and explore what’s new in this Kong Konnect release. Figure 1: Kong Konnect Personal…
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Kong Gateway is built on Nginx/OpenResty because it has a unique master/worker architecture, forks out many worker processes, and can utilize every CPU core efficiently. It is the powerhouse within Kong. But one master / multi workers architecture has an annoying defect. Each worker is an isolated…
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We created the Kong Champions program as a way to acknowledge and encourage community members, such as developers and advocates, who are going above and beyond in the Kong community. They help us to grow, learn, and create better tools and products as a company. With 18 Champions all over the…
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We are happy to announce the release of Kong Mesh 1.9 and Kuma 1.8! This release is packed with features and improvements such as observability for builtin Gateway, a complete rewrite of the CNI and projected service account tokens support. In order to take advantage of the latest and greatest in…
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Decentralization is a common term heard in systems architecture. But what that term means can vary from person to person — especially when Web3 enters the picture. In this post, we'll look at a couple different concepts of decentralization and how the Web3 version differs from Web2. For a primer on…
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