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When seemingly random test failures happen, it can be tempting to simply run again and move on. But, as the following example shows, it can be important to not overlook potential issues without investigating to determine the cause of the symptom. In the case of our story, by digging a little deeper…
After 12 months of hard work, we’re excited to announce the biggest release of Kong Insomnia that we have ever seen: Kong Insomnia 8.0, significantly rebuilt from the ground up and available today in GA. You can get started for free on insomnia.rest . Announced today at API Summit 2023, Kong…
The Kong Gateway CI was failing intermittently (about once every 100 runs) on the ARM64 platform with a strange error: “attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'i' (a function value)”. The variable i in the context is an integer but at runtime, it was sometimes a function value. This is caused by a…
In this series of posts, we will look closely at how Kong Konnect Data Planes can take advantage of Autoscalers running on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS) 1.29 to support the throughput the demands API consumers impose on it at the lowest cost. The series comprises four parts: One of the…
After getting our Konnect Data Planes vertically and horizontally scaled, with VPA and HPA , it's time to explore the Kubernete Node Autoscaler options. In this post, we start with the Cluster Autoscaler mechanism. (Part 4 in this series is dedicated to Karpenter.) The Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler…
In this post, we're going to explore Karpenter, the ultimate solution for Node Autoscaling. Karpenter provides a cost-effective capability to implement your Kong Konnect Data Plane layer using the best EC2 Instances Types options available for your Kubernetes Nodes. See the previous posts in this…
In the rapidly evolving landscape of API management, understanding the raw performance and reliability of your API gateway is not just an expectation — it's a necessity. At Kong, we're dedicated to ensuring our users have access to concrete, actionable data to guide their operational and…