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# All Blogs

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# When to Use REST vs. gRPC vs. GraphQL

When to Use REST vs. gRPC vs. GraphQL (Part 1)
[Engineering](/blog)EngineeringMarch 18, 2022

The proliferation of microservices has led to many new innovative approaches in the software world. However, building robust, quality APIs that consistently deliver the business outcomes you desire can be a complex task. It's no wonder a recent survey of organizations adopting microservices found…

Adam Jiroun
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# Kong API Gateway on Kubernetes with Pulumi

How an API Gateway Secures APIs 
[Engineering](/blog)EngineeringMarch 15, 2022

The quest for resilience and agility has driven us into the modern age of microservices. Bringing services to market on a microservice architecture demands the utilization of sprawling technology offerings and tooling. While daunting at first glance, we can break down the process into 3 major…

Kat Morgan
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# What is Cloud Native?

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[Learning Center](/blog)Learning CenterMarch 10, 2022

With cloud-native technology gaining popularity by the day, it's crucial for businesses to stay up-to-date with its innovative architecture and functionalities. As opposed to traditional monolithic architectures, cloud-native infrastructure adopts a modular design made up of small but powerful…

Kong
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# Reasons to Use an API Gateway

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[Learning Center](/blog)Learning CenterMarch 10, 2022

A microservice -based system can consist of dozens or even hundreds of individual services communicating with each other via APIs . While its possible for a client be that a web browser, application or IoT device to make requests to the relevant microservice directly, this approach has a number of…

Kong
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# Why Do Microservices Need an API Gateway?

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[Learning Center](/blog)Learning CenterMarch 10, 2022

Microservices architecture has become extremely popular for building scalable applications from small, independent services. However, the decentralized nature of microservices brings certain drawbacks that API gateways are purpose-built to address. This article explains the role and benefits of…

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# Building and Securing API Gateway Architecture

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[Learning Center](/blog)Learning CenterMarch 10, 2022

If the connection from clients to your API gateway isn't encrypted, all messages you send and receive are out in the open for all to read. In looking for a way in, attackers will make use of all features of an API, even the undocumented ones; security by obscurity is not a realistic defense…

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# What Does a Secure API Gateway Look Like?

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[Learning Center](/blog)Learning CenterMarch 10, 2022

An API gateway provides routing, traffic control and security capabilities which would otherwise be the responsibility of API consumers and upstream APIs. Additionally, the Gateway becomes a rich source of operational metrics useful for analytics, usage statistics and alerting. However, by…

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# Microservices Monitoring and Distributed Tracing Tools

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[Learning Center](/blog)Learning CenterMarch 10, 2022

Monitoring the health of your production system involves keeping track of various data points in real time in order to derive insights from them. Day to day, monitoring can provide early indications of problems, giving the team time to investigate and fix before a system fails completely. If youre…

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# Understanding Microservices Authentication Services

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[Learning Center](/blog)Learning CenterMarch 10, 2022

Authentication is the process of determining who a user is by, for example, asking them to provide a username and password or using multi-factor authentication. Once you know who the user is, you can check their account details to determine what they are authorized to access. Creating a session for…

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# RESTful API Best Practices

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[Learning Center](/blog)Learning CenterMarch 10, 2022

In this article, were going to walk through a brief origin of RESTful APIs and then take a good look at what to consider when building your own APIs with RESTful design. RE presentational S tate T ransfer or REST is an architectural pattern designed by Roy Fielding, in a chapter of the dissertation…

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# Vendor Lock-In: What Is It and How Do You Avoid It?

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[Learning Center](/blog)Learning CenterMarch 10, 2022

While this idiom generally refers to the concept of avoiding the investment of all of ones energy or resources into a single venture at the risk of losing everything, in this context, the risk of locking in to a single vendor is a different cost: budget, manpower and time. When migrating an…

Kong
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# Configuring API Gateways for High Availability (HA) Clusters

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[Learning Center](/blog)Learning CenterMarch 10, 2022

One of the many benefits of a microservices architecture over the traditional monolith approach to application design is the ability to scale the individual microservices as required for performance and availability. In production scenarios requiring high availability, uptime is always limited by…

Kong
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# Control Plane vs. Data Plane - What's the Difference?

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[Learning Center](/blog)Learning CenterMarch 10, 2022

What do these terms mean? Do they refer to the same things in Kubernetes as they do in a service mesh? If you've encountered difficulty searching for a straight answer, look no further. Ultimately, the terms control plane and data plane are all about the separation of concern — that is, a clear…

Kong
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# An Introduction to Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Connectivity

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[Learning Center](/blog)Learning CenterMarch 10, 2022

Hybrid and multi-cloud models have become popular for helping to prevent vendor lock-in, reducing costs, and allowing businesses to stay innovative by only using the best features of each cloud provider. Adopting a hybrid model has also been influenced by growing security concerns and tougher…

Kong
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# What are API Gateway Policies?

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[Learning Center](/blog)Learning CenterMarch 10, 2022

An API Gateway is becoming an essential part of modern application architecture. It acts as a reverse proxy that routes API requests to appropriate backend services. Along with routing, API Gateways provide capabilities like security, monitoring, rate limiting, and more for your APIs. A major…

Kong
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