The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
APIs are the connective tissue of digital products and services, and they're the lifeblood of AI. APIs shape customer experiences, power partner ecosystems, and accelerate enterprise innovation. As organizations double down on API-first strategies, one role is emerging as indispensable: the API…
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If you take a step back and think about today’s software development landscape, you could argue that documentation is just as important as the code itself. That’s because traditional documentation workflows — where documentation is manually updated, stored separately from code, and thus often falls…
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Clear, effective API documentation is a crucial and rapidly expanding component of software development. Solid documentation provides all the necessary information a developer needs to integrate with an API so that they can avoid spending hours troubleshooting and context switching. It reduces the…
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Imagine this: You're documenting an unreleased feature, and your documentation requires screenshots. However, you're working in an internal environment that includes features you don't want to reveal to the public. What do you do? We faced this exact situation during the API Summit release when we…
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As businesses expand and gain visibility, it’s natural that their API attack surfaces become more exposed — increasing the risk of dangerous data breaches. Protecting cloud communications and securing data in transit should be your organization’s top priority. API authentication mechanisms help…
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Few things are more frustrating than encountering a product with either no documentation or worse: documentation that leads you astray. When it comes to developing APIs, schemas typically define how requests and responses are formatted and guide how clients and services exchange data. Commonly,…
[](/blog/engineering/beta-api-specs)Building APIs is a craft. Your API product must be stable, accurate, well documented, performant, and meet the informational demands of your clients — no small task. In this series, we'll take a close look at GraphQL , a trending API technology that aims to help you deliver efficient and capable…
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Kong will crash on the ARM64 platform (the machine with Mac M1/M2 chips or any ARM64 platform). The error message shows the crash is triggered by the SIGILL signal, which means there is an illegal instruction in the Kong binary code. And it turns out to be caused by an error in the LuaJIT…
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Creating API design guidelines is a common practice for many enterprises. The goal? Ensuring that all teams involved in API development will adhere to them. However, this goal is often not achieved, as developers may not take the time to read, study, and apply these guidelines. To address this…
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Kong Dev Portal comes out of the box with a RESTful API -based catalog and YAML-based template functionality. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to get to the next level of API documentation using Kong Dev Portal with GraphQL. That way, you'll be able to give your API developers an interactive…
[](/blog/engineering/kong-developer-portal-graphql)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…
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