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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One of the most common questions we're asked by prospective customers is "what's the right way to get started with API monetization?" In this article, we'll do our best to lay out what we've seen work most frequently — and call out a few common pitfalls as well. What we can say with certainty…
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Open Banking is a key digital transformation initiative in many countries. Its aim is to provide end users with more control of their financial data and to enable companies involved in banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) to quickly offer new services. The Kong-AWS partnership provides…
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Finastra has ambitious goals - to open up the world of finance. As Joey White, SVP of technology for Finastra, says, "The future of finance is open. All of the currently closed systems within banking will need to open to serve a digital future." To him, open means understanding what you don't know,…
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What is an API Gateway? In essence, it authenticates that a particular consumer has permission to access the API, using a predefined set of credentials. There are special cases — for example, the option to allow anonymous authentication — but generally speaking, the aim of API authentication is to…
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We are happy to announce the latest release for both Kong Mesh and Kuma, which is packed with features and improvements. Kong Mesh 1.7 is focused on security and stability, as it allows to better integrate with AWS thanks to a native AWS ACM integration to store CA certificates while implementing…
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In our previous post , we discussed the benefits and drawbacks of two of the most popular API models - REST and gRPC. In this post, we'll highlight the final API model in our series, GraphQL. Finally, we’ll recap our learnings with a side-by-side comparison of REST, gRPC and GraphQL. GraphQL is an…
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In this Kongcast episode , Henrik Blixt, Product Manager for Argo at Intuit, gives an introduction to Argo, an open source tool for Kubernetes and incubating project of CNCF. Check out the transcript and video from our conversation below, and be sure to subscribe to get email alerts for the latest…
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Exceptional digital customer experience is vital to building a successful business. A recent report from Forrester Research shows customer-obsessed companies reporting 2.5x higher revenue growth and 2.2x better customer retention. Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) play a key role in…
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This is Part 1 of a three-part blog series that will dive into industry insights from technology leaders who are facing the next wave of digital innovation head-on. Today, we meet again at the cusp of the next frontier. This time, it's Web3, the metaverse and boundless connectivity. Businesses…
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This is part of a 3-part series on APIs, sustainability, and climate change. Check out part 1 on managing a greener API lifecycle, and part 2 on ways to embed and innovate on top of third-party APIs to make greener products. In this final part, we will look at the environmental impact of common…
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Recently, I was fortunate to have an insightful conversation with Matt Klein, Lyft software engineer and creator of Envoy , the popular open-source edge and service proxy for cloud-native applications. Envoy was the third project to graduate from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF),…
[](/blog/engineering/platform-based-future-matt-klein)In this Kongcast episode , Josh Long, Spring Developer Advocate at VMware, dives into how Spring changed the way developers build Java applications and introduces you to Spring Native. Check out the transcript and video from our conversation below, and be sure to subscribe to get email alerts for…
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This is the second part of our three-part blog series on APIs, sustainability and climate change. Missed the first part? Check it out here . In this blog, we examine ways to consume and embed APIs to make our own processes greener and show how APIs are the building blocks of a new wave…
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TBC Bank is a technology-driven company in Georgia. We are happy to announce that we have chosen Kong to improve our API ecosystem and leverage its technological resources, expertise and international footprint to further simplify the daily lives of our users. TBC wanted to partner with a company…
[](/blog/news/tbc-bank-improver-api-ecosystem)Secure your AI infrastructure with prompt guards, PII sanitization, and centralized governance. Control LLM costs with token-based rate limiting and semantic routing across providers.