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Rapid Application Modernization With Kong Konnect and Apache Camel (Part 1)

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EngineeringJanuary 6, 2022

Here's a story about a developer surviving in a world of APIs, Kubernetes and rapid application modernization. Meet Josh (a pseudonym). Josh is your typical developer. He's good at writing code in his native language, hates documentation and REALLY hates the "drag and drop" approach to developing…

Simon Green

API Infrastructure: ESB versus API Gateway (Part 2)

API Infrastructure: ESB Versus API Gateway (Part 1)
EnterpriseJanuary 5, 2022

In our last blog , we discussed the connectivity solution – Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) which was a preferred method for connecting monolithic applications. In this blog, we will discuss the role of an API gateway in today's modern distributed world. We'll also compare ESBs with API gateways and…

Brad Drysdale

Top API and Digital Transformation Trends for 2022

Top API and Digital Transformation Trends for 2022
EnterpriseDecember 29, 2021

Composable business. APIOps. Hyperautomation. Open policy agent. These are among the themes we're expecting to hear a lot more of in 2022. Here are 12 key developments we're beginning to see in the world of digital transformation, APIs and the cloud. A composable business is an agile business that…

Marco Palladino

Embracing Failure With Gremlin Chaos Engineering

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EngineeringDecember 27, 2021

In this episode of Kongcast , I spoke with Jason Yee , director of advocacy at Gremlin , about the concept of chaos engineering, why even the best engineers can't control everything, and tools and tactics to help build app resiliency. Check out the transcript and video from our conversation below,…

Viktor Gamov

Achieving Maximum API Platform Security With Kong

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EngineeringDecember 22, 2021

Before exposing your company's APIs, your highest priority should be to assure the API security , governance and reliability of that architecture. To do so, you'll need to use an API gateway as a single secure entry point for API consumers rather than allowing direct access to APIs. Kong Gateway…

Mani Hosseini

Set API Bandwidth Limits With This Hackathon Award-Winning Plugin

2021 Best Kong Gateway Plugin Winner
EngineeringDecember 21, 2021

This year, we hosted our inaugural Kong Summit Hackathon . This virtual competition engaged our open source community and offered recognition and prizes for hacks in various categories. The community delivered with ingenious plugins, hacks and documentation. This blog post highlights our Kong…

Narendra Patel

The Next Generation of API Connectivity: Apache Kafka, API Gateway and Service Mesh

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EnterpriseDecember 17, 2021

Let's boldly go where no one has gone before. Get ready, Star Trek fans! Jean-Luc Picard will be representing our microservice . Once we have Jean-Luc in our ship (microservice in production), what happens on day 2? We still need to add authorization, load balancing, rate limiting, etc. With an API…

Viktor Gamov

Kong Gateway 2.7 Is Here and Ready!

Kong Gateway 2.7 Is Here and Ready!
Product ReleasesDecember 16, 2021

Today, we are welcoming another noteworthy advancement of the Kong Gateway - the general availability of version 2.7! Both Kong Gateway and Kong Gateway OSS version 2.7 downloads are available on your favorite distribution channels. This release of the Kong Gateway includes a number of important…

Paul Fischer

Log4J, Log4Shell and Kong

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EngineeringDecember 16, 2021

If you've been online at all this week, chances are that you've heard about the Log4Shell zero-day ( CVE-2021-44228 ) in Log4J, a popular Java logging library. The vulnerability enables Remote Code Execution (RCE), which allows attackers to run arbitrary code on the target's machines. I know the…

Michael Heap

Meet Kong’s New CMO, Juliette Rizkallah!

Meet Kong’s New CMO, Juliette Rizkallah!
NewsDecember 15, 2021

We're thrilled to welcome Juliette Rizkallah to the Kong family as our first chief marketing officer ! Juliette brings a unique background grounded in business, strategy and data-driven marketing that will help take Kong to new heights. A seasoned leader with more than 30 years of experience in…

Chuck Waygood

What Does a Service Mesh Do?

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EnterpriseDecember 13, 2021

In this episode of Kongcast , I spoke with Scott Lowe , principal field engineer at Kong , about what a service mesh does and when to use it, among other common mesh-related questions. Check out the transcript and video from our conversation below, and be sure to subscribe to get email alerts for…

Kaitlyn Barnard

Building Smart O11y for Kuma With Elastic Observability

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EnterpriseDecember 10, 2021

This blog was co-created by Ricardo Ferreira (Elastic) and Viktor Gamov (Kong). We love our microservices, but without a proper observability (O11y) strategy, they can quickly become cold, dark places cluttered with broken or unknown features. O11y is one of those technologies deemed created by…

Viktor Gamov

Building With Insomnia as a REST API Client

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EngineeringDecember 8, 2021

As more companies invest in a cloud native infrastructure , they're choosing to prioritize their applications as microservices —architecting them into distinct servers. Each component is responsible for one (and only one) feature. For example, you might have Server A responsible for handling…

Garen Torikian

4 Ways to Leverage Kong’s jq Plugin

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EngineeringDecember 7, 2021

As part of the Kong Gateway 2.6 release, we shipped a brand new jq plugin for anyone with an enterprise license to use. It’s like we combined the request and response transformer plugins to form a single, more powerful plugin—supercharging the way we work with request and response bodies. If you're…

Michael Heap

How We Got a 12% Increase in RPS and a 37% Drop in Latency

The Evolution of APIs: From the Cloud Age and Beyond (Part 1)
EngineeringDecember 6, 2021

At Kong, we run performance testing in CI in every commit or pull request that has a potential performance impact, as well as on each release. Thanks to the performance testing framework and its integration with Github Actions, we can easily get basic metrics like RPS and latency. Also, flame…

Wangchong Zhou
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