The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
Here's a story about a developer surviving in a world of APIs, Kubernetes and rapid application modernization. Meet Josh (a pseudonym). Josh is your typical developer. He's good at writing code in his native language, hates documentation and REALLY hates the "drag and drop" approach to developing…
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In our last blog , we discussed the connectivity solution – Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) which was a preferred method for connecting monolithic applications. In this blog, we will discuss the role of an API gateway in today's modern distributed world. We'll also compare ESBs with API gateways and…
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Composable business. APIOps. Hyperautomation. Open policy agent. These are among the themes we're expecting to hear a lot more of in 2022. Here are 12 key developments we're beginning to see in the world of digital transformation, APIs and the cloud. A composable business is an agile business that…
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In this episode of Kongcast , I spoke with Jason Yee , director of advocacy at Gremlin , about the concept of chaos engineering, why even the best engineers can't control everything, and tools and tactics to help build app resiliency. Check out the transcript and video from our conversation below,…
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We're thrilled to welcome Juliette Rizkallah to the Kong family as our first chief marketing officer ! Juliette brings a unique background grounded in business, strategy and data-driven marketing that will help take Kong to new heights. A seasoned leader with more than 30 years of experience in…
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In our last blog post , we discussed the evolution of APIs from early computing to the PC era. In this post, we'll discuss the evolution of APIs in the early internet age. Along the way, we'll touch upon associated core technologies such as eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and discuss the…
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As organizations look to accelerate their digital transformation initiatives, a couple of key trends are prevalent. First, there is a movement from monolithic to smaller cloud native microservices. Second, there is more pressure to innovate, resulting in an explosion of APIs and connections to…
[](/blog/news/kong-okta-identity-api-management)To work and live in today's digital world, we are unquestionably dependent on interconnected applications . These applications might be massive and highly complex, but they're also constructed from reusable building blocks, which we call an Application Programming Interface—the API. API adoption is…
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A developer portal is a storefront to your APIs (the products) that internal and external developers are trying to consume. The Kong Developer Portal provides a single source of truth for all developers to locate, access and consume services. With intuitive content management for documentation,…
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Many organizations have been able to accomplish impressive things using Kong products, including Kong Konnect, Kong Enterprise, Kong Gateway, Kuma and Insomnia. We recently honored four of these enterprises in the inaugural Cloud Connectivity Innovator Awards program during Kong Summit 2021.…
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In the last blog post , we discussed the need for both speed and quality for your API delivery and how APIOps can help achieve both. In this part of our blog post series, we'll walk through what the API lifecycle looks like when following APIOps. We're still following the best practice we've…
[](/blog/enterprise/automating-api-lifecycle-apiops-part-2)Today, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and microservices are the de-facto standard for building and connecting modern applications. APIs are no longer just a delivery mechanism but have become the product itself . API lifecycle management refers to the comprehensive, step-by-step process…
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We are thrilled to be once again recognized as a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Full Lifecycle API Management . We believe this recognition reinforces our commitment to our customers, who rely on us to continue innovating so they can build solutions that unlock growth, security and…
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Apps of today differ from those of the past. Evolving organizations like Cargill need to scale quickly to support millions of users, have global availability, manage petabytes or more of data and respond in milliseconds. That's why modern apps now leverage API automation. This article will dive…
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Last week, the digital world experienced a power outage . A major distributed edge computing platform experienced a software bug that led to the collapse of their Domain Name System (DNS), or the Internet's way to map domain names (i.e. united.com) to IP addresses. The consequences were costly. So…
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