As the need for speed in business can seemingly be at odds with the need for control, organizations developing APIs today face a critical challenge: how can you empower developers to build and deploy APIs quickly while maintaining enterprise-wide governance and security? More traditional API…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but there’s a lot of data out there — and the amount is only growing. Estimates typically show persistent data growth roughly at a 20% annual compounded rate. Capturing, storing, analyzing, and actioning data is at the core of digital applications, and it’s…
Decentralization is a common term heard in systems architecture. But what that term means can vary from person to person — especially when Web3 enters the picture. In this post, we'll look at a couple different concepts of decentralization and how the Web3 version differs from Web2. For a primer on…
One of the things that’s quite interesting about service mesh is that it has not been a very well-defined category for a very long time. Service mesh is not a means to an end. By looking at its adoption, we’ve been seeing a refocus on the end use case that service mesh allows us…
Starting with Kong CE 0.13 and the upcoming EE 0.32, it is possible to separate control and data planes in a Kong cluster. So what are those planes? The control plane is how we instrument the system (pushing configs, fetching logs), whereas the data plane is the traffic that is actually being…
Secure your AI infrastructure with prompt guards, PII sanitization, and centralized governance. Control LLM costs with token-based rate limiting and semantic routing across providers.