Calling all technical writers! Kong is applying to participate in this year’s Season of Docs and would love to work alongside you. The goal is to foster collaboration between open source projects and technical writers. Season of Docs is a unique program that pairs technical writers with our open…
[](/blog/engineering/kong-community-season-of-docs)Save the date! Kong API Summit will be returning for its second year this coming October 2-3 at the Hilton Union Square in San Francisco. Focused on building the next era of software , Kong Summit 2019 will provide a fun and educational forum for discovering, learning and trying the technologies,…
[](/blog/news/kong-summit-2019-call-for-speakers)Anaheim, Amsterdam, Australia, oh my! The Kong team is packing our bags and hitting the road for AWS Global Summits around the world over the next few months. At each free event, the cloud computing community gathers to discuss AWS core topics and software trends. Visit our booth for riveting…
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Today, we have some exciting news! We’re announcing our $43 million Series C round, led by Index Ventures and our board member Mike Volpi, with participation from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz (Martin Casado) and CRV (Devdutt Yellurkar), as well as new strategic investors GGV Capital and…
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Today, we're thrilled to announce the release of Kong 1.1 ! Building on the release of support for service mesh in Kong 1.0 last September, our engineering teams and community have been hard at work on this latest iteration of our open source offering. With new Declarative Config and DB-less…
[](/blog/product-releases/kong-1-1-released)The Kong team will be in Santa Clara next week for AWS Summit Santa Clara . Kong is a proud sponsor of this free event that brings together a wide range of attendees across company size, industry and scope, and we hope to see you there! To schedule a one-on-one meeting with a member…
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In the modern SaaS world, observability is key to running software reliability, managing risks and deriving business value out of the code that you're shipping. To measure how your service is performing, you record Service Level Indicators (SLIs) or metrics, and alert whenever performance,…
[](/blog/engineering/observability-kubernetes-kong)With Kong 1.0 users are now able to control TCP (Transport Control Protocol) traffic. Learn about how we added TCP support, and how you can try it out. TCP traffic powers email, file transfer, ssh, and many other common types of traffic that can't be handled by a layer 7 proxy. Our expansion to…
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API Fortress is a continuous testing platform for APIs. We've been a friend to Kong since the beginning. In this guest blog post, we explain how our company uses Kong to facilitate the process of virtualizing APIs. As more companies adopt microservice architectures and DevOps best practices, APIs…
[](/blog/engineering/api-fortress-mock)Kong is very easy to get up and running: start an instance, configure a service, configure a route pointing to the service, and off it goes routing requests, applying any plugins you enable along the way. But Kong can do a lot more than connecting clients to services via routes. In this talk from…
[](/blog/engineering/tour-kongs-routing-capabilities)Jason Walker shares how Cargill is using Kong to transform legacy architecture with a “Cloud first, but not always” approach. Hear why Cargill chose Kong for their API gateway as part of their internal API platform, Capricorn, allowing Jason's small team to stay nimble while they administer…
[](/blog/enterprise/sharpening-the-axe-our-journey-into-disruption-with-kong)In our last blog post in this series, we discussed our journey designing a metrics pipeline for Kong Cloud to ensure the reliability of our SaaS offering. We discussed how we re-architected our production data pipeline using OpenResty to send metrics to Prometheus and saw huge performance gains. We…
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Today, we're thrilled to announce the general availability of Kong 1.0 – a scalable, fast, open source Microservice API Gateway built to manage, secure and connect hybrid and cloud-native architectures. Kong runs in front of any service and is extended through plugins including authentication,…
[](/blog/product-releases/kong-1-0-ga)Want to take your API to the next level? Then you should give your API an OpenAPI spec! An OpenAPI spec is more than just documentation — with it, you can leverage your API to generate client code, do automated testing and more! During Kong Summit, Wordnik Founder Erin McKean gave an overview of…
[](/blog/engineering/leveraging-openapi-awesome-apis)During the Kong Summit in September Chris Richardson, founder of CloudFoundry.com, gave an excellent talk describing the characteristics of microservice architectures . He outlined the benefits of microservices, including testability and deployability. He also discussed the drawbacks. Microservices…
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