The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
We’re excited to announce the general availability of Kong Gateway 3.5 for Open Source (OSS). This release enables Javascript developers to extend the Gateway via the WebAssembly layer which is currently in Beta, delivers some enormous observability enhancements, and unlocks top-end performance.…
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In the Kubernetes world, the Ingress API has been the longstanding staple for getting access to your Services from outside your cluster network. Ingress has served us well over the years and can be found present in several dozen different implementations, but as time has passed and Kubernetes has…
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Modern software design relies heavily on distributed systems architecture, requiring all APIs to be robust and secure. GraphQL is no exception and is commonly served over HTTP, subjecting it to the same management concerns as any REST-based API. In fact, GraphQL’s dynamic client querying…
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At Kong, we love APIs! They’re the foundation of modern architecture, and we believe they’re only going to expand in scope over time. We also support a number of different tools to manage APIs — from decK for declarative Kong Gateway configuration to Kong Insomnia for development and exploration of…
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While JSON-based APIs are ubiquitous in the API-centric world of today, many industries adapted internet-based protocols for automated information exchange way before REST and JSON became popular. One attempt to establish a standardized protocol suite for automated data interchange within and…
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Perhaps the most exciting feature introduced in Kong Gateway in recent years is the addition of WebAssembly support. WebAssembly (or Wasm) was originally developed to bring additional languages beyond JavaScript into the browser. However, nothing stops it from being used in the backend as well!…
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We're delighted to announce the release of Kong Gateway 3.4 for Kong Enterprise and Kong Konnect , featuring significant enhancements, such as secrets rotation support in secrets management, expanded plugin support in consumer groups, and more. The highlight of this update is the designation of…
[](/blog/product-releases/gateway-3-4-enterprise-and-konnect)The Kong Gateway 3.4 for Open Source (OSS) release is massive for our community users. Notably, this release introduces support for WebAssembly (Wasm), bringing a new level of extensibility and customization to Kong Gateway. Read on to learn more about the new capabilities in Kong Gateway 3.4 for…
[](/blog/product-releases/gateway-3-4-oss)As API usage and dependence continue to grow, the need for a reliable, performant, and secure API gateway has become even more essential. Kong Gateway Open Source continues to be the world’s most adopted API gateway, setting the benchmark for performance, reliability, and observability. Today,…
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Starting with the 3.3 release, Kong Gateway includes a new implementation of the internal queues that are used by several plugins to decouple the production of data in the proxy path and its submission to a receiving server, such as a log server. We'll walk you through why queues are needed, why a…
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There are many different ways to deploy Kong Gateway. In this post, Viktor Gamov (Principal Developer Advocate at Kong) walks through the four most popular ways. Depending on your particular use case, you may find that one or more of these is a good fit. Let's get started! Using the DB-less and…
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Developers will remember times when they were trying to figure out why something they were working on wasn’t behaving as expected. Hours of frustration, too much (or perhaps never enough) caffeine consumed, and sotto voce curses uttered. And then — as if by fate — the issue is narrowed down to a…
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Observability is a critical part of Kong's API Gateway . In this post, we'll describe two options to monitor Kong Gateway using Prometheus. Prometheus is an open source system monitor toolkit built at SoundCloud that is now widely adopted. StatsD was originally a simple daemon developed by Etsy to…
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Many of Kong’s features rely on timers, such as caching, DNS, and health checks. Kong also runs some async tasks using the timer, such as the rate-limiting plugin, which connects to the database using the timer to make the request finish quickly. As Kong’s user population grows, so does the…
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Viktor Gamov and Rick Spurgeon co-authored this blog post. Kong Gateway provides dynamic plugin ordering allowing administrators to control plugin execution order. Dynamic plugin ordering was added in Kong Enterprise 3.0 and the full technical reference is available in the official…
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