At Kong, we leverage many tools to protect our services and customers. Terraform from HashiCorp allows us to automate the process with Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Another important tool is Amazon Web Services (AWS) GuardDuty , a continuous monitoring service for security threat detection in your…
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When a data breach occurs involving a cloud service, the impulsive reaction is to denounce using the cloud (at least for sensitive information). Since cloud security is not widely understood, it may be difficult to delineate it in the context of more general information security. Out of the box,…
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In our last blog post in this series, we discussed our journey designing a metrics pipeline for Kong Cloud to ensure the reliability of our SaaS offering. We discussed how we re-architected our production data pipeline using OpenResty to send metrics to Prometheus and saw huge performance gains. We…
[](/blog/engineering/collecting-metrics-1m-rps)The best way to learn a new technology is often to try it. Even if you prefer reading docs, hands-on experimentation is an ideal accompaniment to written instructions. Today I’m happy to announce the fastest and easiest way to try Kong on Kubernetes — the new Kong Kubernetes App on the Google Cloud…
[](/blog/engineering/kong-kubernetes-gcp)Kong Cloud has been using StatsD and Prometheus heavily in monitoring and metrics collecting. In this blog post we discuss the use case of StatsD and Prometheus on Kong Cloud, the performance problem we found, and the way we proposed to solve it. StatsD is a metrics server that accepts events from…
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Developers are turning to microservices in greater numbers to help break through the inflexibility of old monolithic applications. Microservices offer many benefits, including separation of concerns, team autonomy, fault tolerance, and scaling across multiple regions for high availability. Learn…
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