The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
We’re excited to announce new features in Kong Konnect , including the ability to take advantage of identity management APIs, streamlined certificate management, and latency metrics as part of Analytics . Read on to learn about these features and how kong helps future-proof API security . Now you…
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In today's cloud ecosystem the demands for high functioning and high performance observability, security and networking functionality for applications and their network traffic are as high as ever. Historically a great deal of this kind of functionality has been implemented in userspace, but the…
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Since the initial launch of Kong Konnect Cloud, one common feature request has (unsurprisingly) been Multi-Region support. Many customers look for SaaS solutions that support a distributed service architecture. Even at its inception, our goal was to support more than a single region. Today, we’re…
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Kong Insomnia now supports WebSocket APIs. This update marks an important expansion to our API platform — and it’s currently available in Kong Insomnia versions 2022.6.0 and above. Insomnia support for WebSockets APIs was just one of the updates announced at Kong Summit 2022 . And it’s a big one…
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As companies are transforming themselves to compete in the cloud era, there's renewed emphasis on delivering seamless customer experience, improving IT infrastructure, and releasing applications faster. As companies embark on the cloud adoption journey, Red Hat OpenShift gives developers a greater…
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There are many pros and cons for both GraphQL and REST APIs, but one of the areas where GraphQL really shines is API composition. Taking data from multiple APIs and combining them to make something new is a key part of delivering a useful service. Today, we're going to take a look at StepZen…
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Our latest release of Kong Konnect augments the security and compliance of the offering through enhanced authentication capabilities. Through the rest of this post, we’ll walk you through each of these features and explore what’s new in this Kong Konnect release. Figure 1: Kong Konnect Personal…
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As engineers and architects, we automatically build resilience into platforms as far as possible. But what about the unknown failures? What about the unknown behavior of your platform? The philosopher, Socrates, once said "You don’t know what you don’t know". What if I could tell you there is a way…
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We live in a digital economy where Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are foundational elements for businesses to operate and grow. As rightly outlined by Gartner , APIs interconnect individual systems that contain data about people, businesses and things, enable transactions, and create new…
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When we first launched Kong Konnect Cloud last year, we provided developers and API owners a powerful way to secure and manage their API products powered by the world’s fastest API gateway . Users flocked to Konnect to reduce their operational costs by using our hosted runtime manager, service…
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Today's digital economy is shifting toward dependence on microservices — self-contained and reusable software components — working in coordination to compose the applications we use. Communication between microservices happens through the API (or application programming interface) . Using APIs…
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Web APIs are an integral piece of the development landscape today. According to a 2021 survey , top industries such as Digital Banking , Retail, and Financial services have experienced significant year-on-year API traffic growth with 70%, 51% and 50% increases since February 2021, respectively. The…
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An Application Programming Interface (API) is a software endpoint that allows communication between two separate services. APIs are typically accessed by humans, applications, or even other APIs using the HTTP protocol. But what happens when there's an API outage and those APIs go offline? For end…
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Git Sync lets you collaborate with your team on Design Documents that you create in Kong Insomnia . In the last release , we updated the way that Git Sync works for GitHub . We now leverage the OpenID Connect protocol and OAuth2 to make it easier for you to set up Git Sync.…
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You would think in the Internet age, primary sources for a widely discussed event — one that's helped define cloud computing and today's cascading digital transformation of enterprises — would be easy to track down. The original footprint must be somewhere. But that's not so in the case of the…
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