It's not uncommon for organizations to have to deploy solutions across (or among) multiple security domains. Here, we use the term "security domain" to refer to a segregated network environment, like a restricted internal network or a DMZ. This post will explore some design considerations when…
Today, we’re excited to announce the release of Kong Gateway 2.8 , which further simplifies API management and improves security for all services across any infrastructure. This announcement demonstrates Kong’s continued commitment to our customers and community by providing a next-generation…
In applications built on a system of microservices , developers should always be on the lookout for opportunities to eliminate unnecessary use of resources, such as database queries, network hops or service requests. API gateway cache (or response caching) is an excellent place to start. For many…
Today, Kong Ingress Controller (KIC) 2.2 is now generally available. KIC 2.2 marks a major milestone in the development of the Kong Ingress Controller, as it is the first release containing a marquee feature, Gateway API. This represents a major milestone for Kong as we continue to keep up to date…
Our Kong family continues to grow! Today, we're beyond excited to welcome Chirag Shah to the leadership team as our new chief financial officer (CFO) . Chirag will play an instrumental role in growing operations and helping Kong scale to new heights in the year to come. He joins us from Cornerstone…
We are happy to announce the first release for both Kong Mesh and Kuma in 2022, which is packed with features and improvements, including substantial performance improvements when running at scale. We strongly suggest to upgrade, in order to take advantage of the latest and greatest when it comes…
Since I started at Kong, we've always been a heavily international company. This has been a unique and fulfilling experience as we come in with a variety of backgrounds. However, it comes with some challenges. Most notably, the time differences as we're now fully remote and spread over the world.…
In this episode of Kongcast , Matt Stratton , a staff developer advocate at Pulumi , explains the history of configuration automation, the world of cloud engineering and how it compares to DevOps. Check out the transcript and video from our conversation below, and be sure to subscribe to get email…
Insomnia is a fast and lightweight open source desktop application that doubles as a tool for API design and testing and as an API client for making HTTP requests. It has built-in support for REST Client , gRPC and GraphQL . All of that is just what you get out of the box. Many…
Multiple teams at Kong have been improving accessibility (also referred to as a11y) across our products. Over the past few months, our Dev Portal team has been working on accessibility improvements prompted by the needs of our customers. For example, financial services and government institutions…
We live in an API-driven economy , where Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are increasingly being used to open new revenue channels, accelerate time to market and democratize data. Enterprises are constantly striving to build faster, more reliable and easier to use APIs. They understand…
Kong Mesh (and Kuma , the open source project upon which Kong Mesh is built) supports multiple zones and meshes. What is the difference between a zone and a mesh, though? And when should one use a zone versus a mesh or vice versa? By the time you're done reading this blog post, you'll…
API security starts with authentication and authorization, then data security and availability. In this post, I will review security considerations for an API gateway and how the capabilities of the Kong Gateway address them. First, let's review different aspects of API security in detail. A…
It's commonly accepted now that APIs and microservices are the future of how software will be built. The introduction of application programming interfaces (APIs) first enabled development teams to expose services to the internet and provide value to their customers and partners. For many…
In this episode of Kongcast , Jeff Taylor , senior product manager at Okta, tells and shows us how to speed up microservices security and take the burden off developers by managing auth with an API gateway . Still using monolithic architectures? Check out our Guide to Microservices Adoption Check…
