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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
[](/blog/product-releases/insomnia-roadmap-2022)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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