As the software application world moves from monolith architectures to microservices , we are also seeing a shift toward developing modular and reusable APIs. According to APIOps , reusable APIs are consumable APIs, which means they must be well-documented and compliant. The separation between…
Automating digital transformation API deployments can help speed time to market and minimize the resources required for the deployments — if developers can be assured that the automated process meets all necessary security requirements. It's a topic that Kong Senior CustomerExperience Manager Peggy…
Event hooks are a brand new feature we launched with Kong Gateway 2.5 that allows you to get notifications when certain events happen on your Kong Gateway deployment. If you want to keep an eye out for when your system creates new administrators or adds new plugins to a latency-sensitive route,…
In 2019, my team at Kong introduced a new open source project called Kuma . Now a sandbox project of the CNCF , Kuma is a modern, universal control plane for service mesh based on Envoy . As we celebrate Kuma's achievements, I want to thank the Kuma community for your support and…
Just under one year ago, we launched version 1.0 of our Kong Ingress Controller (KIC). That was a huge milestone for us here at Kong, and we know it was for you - Kong Nation - as well. Since then, with the help of our community, we've merged over 300 new features and bug…
As more and more companies move to a multi-cloud strategy and increase usage of a cloud native infrastructure , API providers are under a lot of pressure to deliver APIs at scale in multi-cloud environments. At the same time, APIs should follow each company's security requirements and best…
Modern microservices -based architectures require companies to change not just the way they build applications but also how to deploy them. Basically, the new microservices foundation should be based on two main pillars: hybrid deployments and Kubernetes orchestrator . With the complete separation…
More and more companies are eager to move their operations to the cloud. Yet, there's quite a bit of ambiguity on what moving to the cloud actually means . Is your business running in the cloud while you host your database on another platform or while you rely on a third-party service to handle…
In my Service Mesh 101 article, I talked about some of the basics behind a service mesh: what it is, what it does and where Envoy fits into a service mesh. Having now covered those basics, I'd like to dig into some more in-depth content focused on the basics of Envoy configuration in a…
What a year we have had! Hypergrowth, a huge community, and lots of recognition. But what we are most proud of is how Kong's technology has impacted the world, thanks to our users. We can't thank these users and the community enough for making Kong the most adopted open source API gateway out…
We are happy to announce a new major release of Kuma, and a new major release of Kong Mesh built on Kuma! Kuma 1.3 ships with 10+ new features and countless improvements. Kong Mesh ships we enterprise capabilities for large scale service mesh deployments. We strongly suggest to upgrade, in order to…
If you've done any reading about service meshes, you've probably come across mentions of an open source project named Envoy. And if you've done any reading about Envoy, you've probably seen references to service meshes. How are these two technologies related? How are they different? Do they work…
This year's Kong API Summit is no ordinary virtual conference. We are taking our attendees into the heart of San Francisco for an action-packed interactive event. This is not one you will want to save for later. [iframe src="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ClurVEX4oV0" frameborder="0"…
Here at Kong, we're advocates for architecting your application as a group of microservices . In this design style, individual services are responsible for handling one aspect of your application, and they communicate with other services within your network to share data. Systems like Kubernetes or…
For most of my software engineering career, my experience with DevOps was all about configuration management. But after many years of experience with some key mentors, I began to see DevOps as so much more. In this article, I'll summarize my DevOps evolution from a high level. If you'd like to go…