Today's digital economy is shifting toward dependence on microservices — self-contained and reusable software components — working in coordination to compose the applications we use. Communication between microservices happens through the API (or application programming interface) . Using APIs…
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Web APIs are an integral piece of the development landscape today. According to a 2021 survey , top industries such as Digital Banking , Retail, and Financial services have experienced significant year-on-year API traffic growth with 70%, 51% and 50% increases since February 2021, respectively. The…
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One of the most common use cases our customers are using Kong for is API rate limiting . There are a few common reasons for doing this: For all those and more, we’re able to easily add this functionality with Kong's rate limit advanced plugin . The plugin can be applied at different levels…
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Note: The following is an appendix for the blog post, Introducing create-api.de v Core Identity You are an OpenAPI 3.1 specification generator. You are an expert in API design and OpenAPI specifications. Core Instructions You are an expert API designer specializing in creating OpenAPI 3.1…
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One of the most critical requirements for an Application Modernization project is to support workloads running on multiple platforms. In fact, such projects naturally include in their transformation process migrating workloads approach using the hybrid model. Another typical technical decision that…
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Since the early ’90s, computer users and businesses have used Adobe's venerable PDF format as the de facto choice for digital documents where portability and advanced features such as form-filling, digital signatures, and accurate rendering is important. First announced on January 1993 in San Jose,…
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Each year at Kong Summit , we shine a light on projects and people ahead of the pack in their use of Kong. And what better way to do that than with a shiny gorilla statue. We call them the API Innovator Awards . The API Innovator Awards recognize outstanding and future-facing projects from…
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An Application Programming Interface (API) is a software endpoint that allows communication between two separate services. APIs are typically accessed by humans, applications, or even other APIs using the HTTP protocol. But what happens when there's an API outage and those APIs go offline? For end…
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We’re excited to announce the latest release for both Kuma and Kong Mesh. This cycle, we focused on simplifying enterprise-wide mesh deployments. We strongly suggest upgrading, in order to take advantage of the latest and greatest when it comes to service mesh. For more details, reference the Kuma…
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Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Kong Ingress Controller (KIC) 2.4! Earlier this year, we launched KIC 2.2 with initial support for Kubernetes Gateway API . In this release, we're adding weighted load balancing and support for TCP and UDP routes, as well as some much…
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Git Sync lets you collaborate with your team on Design Documents that you create in Kong Insomnia . In the last release , we updated the way that Git Sync works for GitHub . We now leverage the OpenID Connect protocol and OAuth2 to make it easier for you to set up Git Sync.…
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Recently, I came across a request from one of our community users looking for a Kong plugin that could look up address details based on a few location search keywords. There are many libraries that support geocoding. I decided to pick up a Python Library as they are simple to use — and the…
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APIs are at the backbone of every modern application that powers our day-to-day lives. As a matter of fact, API traffic today is at least 83% of the world’s global internet traffic [1], which underlines the importance of modern API infrastructure that can unlock innovation, agility, fast release…
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You would think in the Internet age, primary sources for a widely discussed event — one that's helped define cloud computing and today's cascading digital transformation of enterprises — would be easy to track down. The original footprint must be somewhere. But that's not so in the case of the…
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Jason Cumberland , CPO and co-founder of API and data monetization platform HyperCurrent , contributed to this post. In our last article on how to get started with API monetization , we laid out how to build your API monetization strategy and avoid common pitfalls that occur when trying to get to…
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