We're in the middle of the golden age of innovation that's creating absolutely astounding achievements. Within 10 years, Elon will land people on Mars , Germany won't have any gasoline cars on the road , and you'll be able to use more of your senses in virtual reality . This blade cuts both ways…
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Rate limiting protects your APIs from inadvertent or malicious overuse by limiting how often each user can call the API. Without rate limiting, each user may make a request as often as they like, leading to "spikes" of requests that starve other consumers. Once enabled, rate limiting can only…
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We created the Terraform API gateway module to help you follow DevOps best practices while implementing Kong using infrastructure as code (IaC). Terraform is an open source tool that allows you to implement IaC using a declarative declaration definition. This Terraform module is the reference…
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Transitioning to microservices has many advantages for teams building large applications that must accelerate the pace of innovation, deployments and time to market. It also provides them the opportunity to secure their applications and services better than they did with monolithic codebases.…
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As a developer, your company hired you to build incredible products that focus on your users' and customers' needs. Yet, in the age of microservices , producing the best products relies heavily on efficient cloud service connectivity. For example, an eCommerce marketplace is more than a front-end…
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We are happy to announce the first release of 2021, Kuma 1.0.5! Shipping with performance improvements and fixes, we highly suggest to upgrade to this new version. For a complete list of features and updates, take a look at the full changelog . Join us on our community channels to learn more about…
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This article was written by Ivan Rylach, a staff software engineer from Checkr. Checkr is the leading technology company in the background check industry. The company was moving to a services-oriented architecture. To scale this process, we switched to a declarative configuration for API…
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In 2020, the acceleration of digital transformation quickly emerged as a top priority for many organizations as they grappled with the business impacts of an unexpected pandemic and raced to adapt to a new reality. As businesses begin to pivot out of the shadows of COVID-19 in 2021, what will this…
[](/blog/enterprise/2021-predictions-5-technology-trends-in-the-year-ahead)Make no mistake! This is a minor release in name only: we are happy to announce the release of Kuma 1.0.4 with many improvements and new non-breaking features, and we suggest to upgrade to start using the greatest and latest. For a complete list of features and updates, take a look at the full…
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Building a multi-region or multi-cloud environment for your applications requires a lot of attention. In a typical deployment, you would have an API gateway running close to the several application runtimes. You should enhance your deployment to support different regions in a given cloud, or in an…
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I'm excited to announce that Kong Enterprise, our modern, scalable service connectivity platform, is now available on top cloud marketplaces, including AWS Marketplace and GovCloud (US) regions, Azure Marketplace, Google Cloud Platform, and Red Hat Marketplace! Built on Kong's core open source…
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When testing APIs, software engineers often repeat identical values across multiple requests, but who wants to waste time typing the same values every time? Insomnia 's environment variables solve this problem by allowing you to define a value once as an environment variable and reference that…
[](/blog/engineering/avoiding-plain-text-passwords-insomnia)We are happy to announce the release of Kuma 1.0.2 with a few improvements and fixes, and we suggest to upgrade to start using the greatest and latest. This is a minor update on top of Kuma 1.0 that shipped recently with over 70+ features and improvements . For a complete list of features…
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You've decided to install Kong Gateway. Congrats! You're almost ready to accelerate your microservices journey with the world's most popular open source API gateway . This article and video will guide you through the short version of our tutorial. If you prefer, here are some more detailed…
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After having announced Kuma 1.0 GA with over 70+ new features and improvements (and Kuma 1.0.1 this week ), we are finally happy to announce a new major version of Kong Mesh that includes all the latest Kuma features – and more – in a fully supported enterprise package. With Kong Mesh 1.1 we…
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