The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
As the software application world moves from monolith architectures to microservices , we are also seeing a shift toward developing modular and reusable APIs. According to APIOps , reusable APIs are consumable APIs, which means they must be well-documented and compliant. The separation between…
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Here at Kong, we're advocates for architecting your application as a group of microservices . In this design style, individual services are responsible for handling one aspect of your application, and they communicate with other services within your network to share data. Systems like Kubernetes or…
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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…
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TL;DR Insomnia Designer and Insomnia Core are now Insomnia. Insomnia Designer users will have to migrate to the new Insomnia application and Designer will no longer receive updates. When we originally built Insomnia Designer, we didn’t want to make large changes to Insomnia without understanding…
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When testing APIs, software engineers often repeat identical values across multiple requests, but who wants to waste time typing the same values every time? Insomnia 's environment variables solve this problem by allowing you to define a value once as an environment variable and reference that…
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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,…
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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…
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