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Since the early ’90s, computer users and businesses have used Adobe's venerable PDF format as the de facto choice for digital documents where portability and advanced features such as form-filling, digital signatures, and accurate rendering is important. First announced on January 1993 in San Jose,…
The shift towards microservices is closely related to both the rise in popularity of agile software development practices and DevOps cultures. These three trends share a common goal: building products that are responsive to user needs while maintaining high quality and high availability. A system…
In this article, we're going to build a fun and simple gRPC server in Node.js. Then we'll demonstrate how to use Insomnia to make gRPC requests on our server. First, let's briefly cover some core tech concepts. If you're already familiar with the basics, skip ahead to the tutorial or watch the…
Today we are excited to welcome Insomnia to the team at Kong! Insomnia has been on our radar at Kong for quite some time. I was first introduced to Insomnia and Greg in the early days of the project, and I am proud to have been one of the earliest supporters. From the first,…
API Fortress is a continuous testing platform for APIs. We've been a friend to Kong since the beginning. In this guest blog post, we explain how our company uses Kong to facilitate the process of virtualizing APIs. As more companies adopt microservice architectures and DevOps best practices, APIs…
During the Kong Summit in September Chris Richardson, founder of CloudFoundry.com, gave an excellent talk describing the characteristics of microservice architectures . He outlined the benefits of microservices, including testability and deployability. He also discussed the drawbacks. Microservices…