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Exposing and Controlling Apache Kafka® Data Streaming with Kong Konnect and Confluent Cloud

Kong KonnectNovember 19, 2024

We announced the Kong Premium Technology Partner Program at API Summit 2024, and Confluent was one of the first in the program. This initial development was all about ensuring that the relationship between Kong and Confluent — from a business and product perspective — fully represented our joint…

Claudio Acquaviva

Four Essential Best Practices for API Management in 2025

API ManagementNovember 1, 2024

The proper management of APIs is vital for organizations seeking to optimize their digital experiences and application performance. API management solutions facilitate the efficient administration of APIs by offering several features such as access control, rate limiting, developer portals,…

Axandria Shepard

How to Manage Your API Policies with OPA (Open Policy Agent)

API ManagementOctober 18, 2024

APIs are essential to modern applications, but managing access and security policies can be complex. Traditional access control mechanisms can fall short when flexible, scalable, and fine-grained control over who can access specific resources is needed. This is where OPA (Open Policy Agent) steps…

Sven Bernhardt

What is Multimodal AI? Technology that Sees, Hears, and Understands

AISeptember 20, 2024

Multimodal AI is a critical player in the new wave of artificial intelligence. By combining different types of data like text, images, and audio, multimodal AI creates more intuitive and versatile AI systems that can more closely mimic human decision-making. Whether it’s for a virtual healthcare…

Kong

The Critical Role of API Security in the Internet of Things (IoT)

API DevelopmentAugust 1, 2024

From smart homes to wearable devices to connected cars, the Internet of Things (IoT) is bringing about a new era of hyper-connectivity. Experts expect investments in the IoT ecosystem to rise above $1 trillion in 2026 — with no signs of slowing down. Application programming interfaces (APIs) are…

Kong

Building Success in the Manufacturing Industry with API Management

Customer StoriesJuly 29, 2024

Manufacturing has been one of the most prominent industries worldwide since the Industrial Revolution. Since then, from producing textiles to computer chips, manufacturers have always looked for ways to innovate. In the age of AI and APIs (or application programming interfaces), tech companies are…

Tizian Bürger

What Is CI/CD?

API ManagementJuly 23, 2024

The pace of the industry today is pressuring software developers to build, test, and release software more frequently than ever. To achieve this pace, teams have built two core processes into their workflow: Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. Continuous Integration and Continuous…

Kong

API Productization Simplified with Multiple Portals in Kong Konnect

Developer PortalJuly 16, 2024

Efficiently managing your developer portal is critical in productizing your APIs quickly and reliably. A streamlined developer portal ensures that your APIs are easily accessible, well-documented, and secure — driving higher adoption and easier integration. With the increasing demand for APIs…

Ella Kuzmenko

API Management is Fundamental to Modernizing Insurance Operations

API ManagementJune 5, 2024

The concept of insurance predates the printing press and the steam engine. So it's likely no surprise that the industry — as obviously adaptable as it is — often faces challenges related to the modernization of legacy systems. In the age of AI and APIs (application programming interfaces) ,…

Wes Beck

What is gRPC?

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API ManagementApril 26, 2024

Most APIs today are accessed over the ubiquitous HTTP protocol and the framework to create these APIs is known as REpresentational State Transfer (REST). These APIs are known as RESTful APIs . However, if you've been working in API development over the last several years, then you have likely heard…

Kong

Enabling Secure Data Exchange with Decentralized APIs

DecentralizationMarch 26, 2024

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but there’s a lot of data out there — and the amount is only growing. Estimates typically show persistent data growth roughly at a 20% annual compounded rate. Capturing, storing, analyzing, and actioning data is at the core of digital applications, and it’s…

Ahmed Koshok

Sending Traffic Across Namespaces with Gateway API

KubernetesMarch 8, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll demonstrate how easy it is to use Gateway API HTTPRoutes to route traffic to workloads deployed in different namespaces in a single Kubernetes cluster — a process that’s easier than ever. Previously, we only had Ingress API to define ingress routing rules. It served us…

Grzegorz Burzyński

API Platform Engineering Maturity Model

API ManagementMarch 6, 2024

APIs have become fundamental to the digital economy, enabling integration and communication between different systems and services. A mature API platform is not just a technical achievement but a strategic asset that can drive innovation, efficiency, and growth. However, reaching this level of…

Jordi Fernandez Moledo

Manage API Access More Seamlessly

API ManagementMarch 1, 2024

The Kong Konnect team recently launched the Portal Management API , which allows users to manage their Developer Portals with one API. That means you can easily manage your portal settings, appearance, application registrations, and registration settings easier than before. In this blog, I’ll walk…

Ella Kuzmenko

Announcing Kong Insomnia’s New Storage Control

InsomniaFebruary 28, 2024

Today we’re excited to announce that Kong Insomnia has shipped Storage Control, a new enterprise capability that allows administrators in an Insomnia organization to mandate what type of backend storage developers are allowed to use when creating API assets like API collections, API specifications,…

Marco Palladino
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