Modern Kafka deployments struggle with a familiar tension. You want fine-grained access control per client, per team, and even per request. However, traditional ACLs force you into static, cluster-level configurations that are brittle, hard to scale, and painful to maintain. Administrators are…
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Event-driven architectures (EDAs) have pretty quickly transformed from a niche engineering pattern to the all-pervasive central nervous system of the modern enterprise. With Apache Kafka at the helm, enterprises are rapidly shifting gears from synchronous REST APIs to asynchronous event streams to…
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There's a problem that almost every platform team running Kafka at scale eventually hits, and it usually starts with a reasonable ask: "Can you give our partners access to this event stream?" What follows is rarely simple. You start scoping VPC peering. Then someone asks about firewall rules. Then…
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The messaging and data streaming industries are constantly evolving, with major shifts such as large vendor purchases. If your company relies heavily on a platform such as Apache Kafka and you recently discovered that your vendor was acquired by a competitor, you are most likely dealing with a…
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Apache Kafka powers real-time data at companies processing substantial event volumes daily. The new KRaft architecture makes getting started easier than ever. The platform handles massive data flows for more than 80% of Fortune 100 companies ( Apache Kafka ), according to the Apache Software…
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Kafka delivers massive value for real-time businesses — but that value comes at a cost. As usage grows, so does complexity: more clusters, more topics, more partitions, more ACLs, more custom tooling. But it doesn’t have to be that way. If your team is managing Kafka at scale, here are five…
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Managing Kafka as an island on its own got you this far. But scaling it securely and efficiently across your organization? That's another matter entirely. Apache Kafka is the number-one event streaming platform used by developers and data engineers worldwide to build reliable, scalable real-time…
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Kong customers include some of the most forward-thinking, tech-savvy organizations in the world. And while we’re proud to help them innovate through traditional APIs, the reality is that their ambitions don’t stop there. Increasingly, our customers are investing heavily in real-time data and event…
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For the past several years, there have been murmurs of an incoming convergence between API management and event management. This has been more than a vendor-led phenomenon; industry analysts — such as Gartner and Forrester — see the worlds colliding as well, which is why Gartner mentions event…
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Today, we're pleased to announce Kong Gateway 3.10, our next Long-Term Support (LTS) version. This LTS version will be supported until March 2028, up to three years from the release date. Please check our documentation here for more details on Kong’s support policy. Highlights of this release…
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We announced the Kong Premium Technology Partner Program at API Summit 2024, and Confluent was one of the first in the program. This initial development was all about ensuring that the relationship between Kong and Confluent — from a business and product perspective — fully represented our joint…
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At API Summit 2024 , Kong announced its new Premium Technology Partner Program, a move designed to enhance the Kong ecosystem by promoting high-quality, reliable integrations and plugins that deliver real business value to customers. The objective? More top-tier integrations and plugins for…
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Event streaming allows companies to build more scalable and loosely coupled real-time applications supporting massive concurrency demands and simplifying the construction of services. Ultimately, we may need to grant access to such infrastructure to the most diverse entities, including external…
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Real-time Data Analytics Platform from Zero to One At the beginning of 2021, a brand new data team was assembled to build a real-time data platform for Kong’s SaaS platform, Konnect. Our mission is to provide top-notch real-time API analytics features for Konnect customers. alt_text V1…
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Let's boldly go where no one has gone before. Get ready, Star Trek fans! Jean-Luc Picard will be representing our microservice . Once we have Jean-Luc in our ship (microservice in production), what happens on day 2? We still need to add authorization, load balancing, rate limiting, etc. With an API…
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