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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Neosec platform integrates with Kong Gateway Enterprise, an API Management Solution , to provide automated and continuous API discovery, API risk posture alerting and API protection through behavioral analytics and response automation. And it does all that while being out of band, using the…
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For those who aren't familiar with Insomnia , it's Kong's API testing, design and debugging platform. Insomnia's product vision is to optimize API development by simplifying and automating a developer's workflows. APIOps plays a key role in this vision, optimizing API development by simplifying and…
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In this episode of Kongcast , I spoke with Chinmay Gaikwad , the tech evangelist at Epsagon , about distributed tracing and observability for microservices architectures. Check out the transcript and video from our conversation below, and be sure to subscribe to get email alerts for the latest new…
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We are happy to announce a new major release of Kuma, and a new major release of Kong Mesh built on Kuma! Kuma 1.4 ships with 25+ new features and countless improvements, particularly when it comes to performance. As previously announced at Kong Summit 2021, Kong Mesh ships we enterprise…
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Earlier 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. In this blog post, we highlight…
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Service Mesh is an infrastructure layer that has become a common architectural pattern for intra-service transparent communication. By combining Kubernetes a container orchestration framework, you can form a powerful platform for your microservices cluster, addressing the typical technical…
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In our last blog post , we discussed the evolution of APIs from early computing to the PC era. In this post, we'll discuss the evolution of APIs in the early internet age. Along the way, we'll touch upon associated core technologies such as eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and discuss the…
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As organizations look to accelerate their digital transformation initiatives, a couple of key trends are prevalent. First, there is a movement from monolithic to smaller cloud native microservices. Second, there is more pressure to innovate, resulting in an explosion of APIs and connections to…
[](/blog/news/kong-okta-identity-api-management)To work and live in today's digital world, we are unquestionably dependent on interconnected applications . These applications might be massive and highly complex, but they're also constructed from reusable building blocks, which we call an Application Programming Interface—the API. API adoption is…
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We love abstractions. We want to make things easier for developers, teams and end users. In doing that, sometimes we build things a little bit too complex for those who don't already understand the pain points for which the abstraction layers were built. Kubernetes is an example of this; it solves…
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After you've built your microservices -backed application, it's time to deploy and connect them. Luckily, there are many cloud providers to choose from, and you can even mix and match. Many organizations, like Australia Post , are taking the mix-and-match approach, embracing a multi-cloud…
[](/blog/engineering/multi-cloud-api-gateway)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.