People have strong feelings about Web3. There's debate over if Web3 is the future, a fad, a buzzword, a myth, meaningless marketing malarkey, or maybe even a scam. Yikes. In this post, we'll try to take some of the heat out of the hot takes and focus on some of the basics of Web…
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As more companies are undergoing digital transformation (resulting in a huge explosion of APIs and microservices), it's of paramount importance to get all the necessary data points and feedback to provide the best experience for both users and developers. Kong Gateway is a lightweight API gateway…
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As engineers and architects, we automatically build resilience into platforms as far as possible. But what about the unknown failures? What about the unknown behavior of your platform? The philosopher, Socrates, once said "You don’t know what you don’t know". What if I could tell you there is a way…
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We live in a digital economy where Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are foundational elements for businesses to operate and grow. As rightly outlined by Gartner , APIs interconnect individual systems that contain data about people, businesses and things, enable transactions, and create new…
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One of Kong's core values is to be an "Explorer" — to be ever curious, always learning, and willing to make bold moves. This value can be demonstrated in many ways, from questioning the status quo to taking on new (and often intimidating) challenges. Most of us grow as a function of simply doing…
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Join the builders and leaders taming the API jungle live and in person at Kong Summit 2022 September 28-29, 2022, at the historic Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California. Registration is now open . Kong Summit 2022 will feature more than 70 speakers across over 40 sessions, with insights from…
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We've heard it called a million and one different things. Sometimes it's "selective synchronization", sometimes it's called "environments". What is clear though, is that there's a real need to be able to manage multiple sets of configuration for Kong Gateway through a single interface. Today, we're…
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When we first launched Kong Konnect Cloud last year, we provided developers and API owners a powerful way to secure and manage their API products powered by the world’s fastest API gateway . Users flocked to Konnect to reduce their operational costs by using our hosted runtime manager, service…
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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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