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# All Blogs

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# Set API Bandwidth Limits With This Hackathon Award-Winning Plugin

2021 Best Kong Gateway Plugin Winner
[Engineering](/blog/tag/engineering)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
[](/blog/engineering/api-bandwidth-limit)

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

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[Enterprise](/blog/tag/enterprise)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
[](/blog/enterprise/apache-kafka-api-gateway)

# Kong Gateway 2.7 Is Here and Ready!

Kong Gateway 2.7 Is Here and Ready!
[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)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
[](/blog/product-releases/kong-gateway-2-7)

# Log4J, Log4Shell and Kong

Log4J Log4Shell and Kong
[Engineering](/blog/tag/engineering)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
[](/blog/engineering/log4j-log4shell)

# Meet Kong’s New CMO, Juliette Rizkallah!

Meet Kong’s New CMO, Juliette Rizkallah!
[News](/blog/tag/news)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
[](/blog/news/juliette-rizkallah-new-cmo)

# What Does a Service Mesh Do?

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[Enterprise](/blog/tag/enterprise)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
[](/blog/enterprise/what-does-service-mesh-do)

# Building Smart O11y for Kuma With Elastic Observability

Level Up Observability
[Enterprise](/blog/tag/enterprise)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
[](/blog/enterprise/o11y)

# Building With Insomnia as a REST API Client

Insomnia-2022-Roadmap Cover Copy@2x
[Engineering](/blog/tag/engineering)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
[](/blog/engineering/insomnia-rest)

# 4 Ways to Leverage Kong’s jq Plugin

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[Engineering](/blog/tag/engineering)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
[](/blog/engineering/jq-plugin)

# 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)
[Engineering](/blog/tag/engineering)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
[](/blog/engineering/kong-gateway-performance)

# Kong and Neosec: Behavioral Analytics With Response Automation

Kong and Neosec
[Engineering](/blog/tag/engineering)EngineeringDecember 6, 2021

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…

Yariv Shivek
[](/blog/engineering/neosec)

# What's New (and Coming Soon) With Insomnia

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[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesDecember 2, 2021

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…

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

# Metrics and Logs Are Out, Distributed Tracing Is In

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[Enterprise](/blog/tag/enterprise)EnterpriseNovember 29, 2021

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…

Viktor Gamov
[](/blog/enterprise/distributed-tracing)

# Kuma 1.4 and Kong Mesh 1.5 Released With RBAC, Windows Support, 2x Performance and 25+ New Features

Kuma 1.4 and Kong Mesh 1.5 Released With RBAC, Windows Support, 2x Performance and 25+ New Features
[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesNovember 23, 2021

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…

Marco Palladino
[](/blog/product-releases/kuma-1-4-kong-mesh-1-5)

# Generating Dynamic Signatures for API Authentication With Insomnia

Generating Dynamic Signatures for API Authentication With Insomnia
[Engineering](/blog/tag/engineering)EngineeringNovember 23, 2021

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…

Scott Harwell
[](/blog/engineering/insomnia-dynamic-signatures)
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