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March 19, 2024
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Unpacking Distributed Applications: What Are They? And How Do They Work?

Paul Vergilis
Senior Solutions Engineer, Kong
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August 26, 2021

Service Mesh 101: The Role of Envoy

Scott Lowe
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August 19, 2021

My DevOps Journey Beyond Configuration Management

Rick Sherman
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May 24, 2021

API Versioning Guidelines and Best Practices

Vikas Vijendra
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January 15, 2021

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Guanlan Dai
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November 20, 2020

Service Design Guidelines Part 1: OpenAPI and Kong

Vikas Vijendra
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August 7, 2020

Tracing With Zipkin in Kong 2.1.0

Enrique García Cota
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April 29, 2020

Introducing Insomnia Designer: An Open Source Collaborative Editor for API Design

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Announcing Kong Studio: Design and Testing Built For Microservices

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January 23, 2019

Creating Mock APIs with API Fortress and Kong

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Leveraging OpenAPI for Awesome APIs

Mike Bilodeau
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Service Mesh - A New Pattern, Not A New Technology?

Marco Palladino
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June 26, 2018

So You’ve Decided to Transition to Microservices, What Now?

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