The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
The Kong Gateway Rate Limiting plugin is one of our most popular traffic control add-ons. You can configure the plugin with a policy for what constitutes "similar requests" (requests coming from the same IP address, for example), and you can set your limits (limit to 10 requests per minute, for…
We recently sat down to discuss the language for the next Kong Gateway Plugin Development Kit (PDK). Given the number of JavaScript developers in the world and the variety of libraries and debugging tools available, there was only one logical choice. I'm excited to share that with the Kong Gateway…
If you've not heard of decK (our declarative configuration and drift detection tool for Kong Gateway ) before, now's a great time to get hands-on with it as we've just shipped decK v1.7.0 with a whole host of new goodies. Oh, and it's all open source as usual. v1.7.0 adds lots of Konnect -related…
🎂 Make a wish and blow out the candles…we're celebrating Kong's sixth anniversary! 👏👏👏 In 2015, Mashape open sourced Kong Gateway , launching the next generation of API management. In our last anniversary post, I took a look back at our history . For this 6th anniversary post, I'll focus on how…
Want to learn more about the nuts and bolts of APIOps? Download our eBook, Unlocking the Full Potential of your APIs with APIOps , and learn about the stages of APIOps, get an understanding of the technical assets required, and explore the tooling needed to transform API development and management.…
Razorpay is a payments processor that's required to comply with PCI guidelines . This article will explain how we developed a custom Lua plugin to simplify PCI compliance with Kong Gateway . The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) is a set of requirements to ensure that all…
In this first section, I'll provide a quick overview of the business case and the tools you can use to create a Kubernetes ingress API gateway. If you're already familiar, you could skip ahead to the tutorial section or watch the video at the bottom of this article. Digital transformation has led…
Hello, Kong Nation 👋 ! We've fashioned a pristine version of the Kong Gateway (OSS) 2.5, which is now available on the normal channels. Read on for more release information. Imagine you're visiting a banking website to transfer funds to friends and family during the holiday season. If the wire…
This blog post is part two of a two-part series on how we broke down our monolith to scale our API management with Kong Gateway, the world's most popular open-source API gateway . ( Here's part one .) At NexJ , the pioneer of intelligent customer management with client engagement products designed…
API gateway request transformation policies are incredibly powerful. There are many situations when an API developer can take advantage of request transformations to adjust the shape and values of a request to cleanly fit their API. Let’s say you’re deprecating a certain endpoint for your API, but…
Two of the best (in my opinion) features in Konnect are the ServiceHub and Dev Portal. However, they're also two of the most misunderstood. Aren't they the same thing? Why would you need a ServiceHub vs. Dev Portal? Well, I'm glad you asked! The really quick version is that ServiceHub is like your…
Today at Kong Summit , we are thrilled to announce several new products, features and capabilities across our entire service connectivity platform with the goal of making service connectivity as invisible and easily consumable as electricity. These updates include making the Kong Istio Gateway…
Infrastructure as code is a core component of all modern SRE team's day-to-day work. There are plenty of options available, but the one that I'm most excited about is Pulumi . Instead of writing a domain-specific language (DSL) to configure your infrastructure, Pulumi lets you write the language…
The inner workings of an API gateway request can be difficult to understand because of its scale. To provide some orientation, we will use the real world as a reference, from planet-spanning infrastructure to a person eating a chocolate bar (processing a server response in a plugin). This series…
Continuous integration and continuous deployment—known colloquially as CI/CD—are essential strategies for building modern software applications. The goal of these processes is to foster a culture of continuous updates. CI is the process by which an external machine (not your local development…