The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
Today, we’re excited to announce the release of Kong Gateway 2.8 , which further simplifies API management and improves security for all services across any infrastructure. This announcement demonstrates Kong’s continued commitment to our customers and community by providing a next-generation…
In applications built on a system of microservices , developers should always be on the lookout for opportunities to eliminate unnecessary use of resources, such as database queries, network hops or service requests. API gateway cache (or response caching) is an excellent place to start. For many…
It's commonly accepted now that APIs and microservices are the future of how software will be built. The introduction of application programming interfaces (APIs) first enabled development teams to expose services to the internet and provide value to their customers and partners. For many…
Ready to speed up your Kong Lua custom plugin development process? 1. Before diving into this post, make sure you're familiar with the basics of plugin development and have gone through the basics described in our Kong documentation . Now, let's dive in…here are the best practices for Kong custom…
In this episode of Kongcast , I spoke with Grant McKeen and Jonathan White from IntegrationWorks about how open banking and BIAN (Banking Industry Architecture Network) work with Kong Gateway to create simplicity from complexity in the banking and financial services industry. Check out the…
Today, we are welcoming another noteworthy advancement of the Kong Gateway - the general availability of version 2.7! Both Kong Gateway and Kong Gateway OSS version 2.7 downloads are available on your favorite distribution channels. This release of the Kong Gateway includes a number of important…
As part of the Kong Gateway 2.6 release, we shipped a brand new jq plugin for anyone with an enterprise license to use. It’s like we combined the request and response transformer plugins to form a single, more powerful plugin—supercharging the way we work with request and response bodies. If you're…
This post highlights how you could use Kong Gateway to implement a solution for the Australian Consumer Data Standards (CDS) , which is part of the Consumer Data Right legislation introduced by the Australian Government in November 2017. As detailed on the Australian ACCC website: CDR will give…
Event Hooks is a new Kong Enterprise feature launched in the Kong Gateway 2.5 Release . This feature sends you notifications when certain events happen on your Kong Gateway deployment. Kong Gateway listens for events, like routes, services, consumers, certificates, plugins, workspaces and RBAC…
**As of December 2021, Kong Gateway has now released our 2.7 version! This release of the Kong Gateway includes a number of important features that serve as a foundation for addressing API security and compliance.** Today, we are proud to announce the general availability (GA) of Kong Gateway 2.6!…
Infrastructure as code is a core component of all modern SRE team's day-to-day work. There are plenty of options available, but the one that I'm most excited about is Pulumi . Instead of writing a domain-specific language (DSL) to configure your infrastructure, Pulumi lets you write the language…
Modern microservices -based architectures require companies to change not just the way they build applications but also how to deploy them. Basically, the new microservices foundation should be based on two main pillars: hybrid deployments and Kubernetes orchestrator . With the complete separation…
Two of the best (in my opinion) features in Konnect are the ServiceHub and Dev Portal. However, they're also two of the most misunderstood. Aren't they the same thing? Why would you need a ServiceHub vs. Dev Portal? Well, I'm glad you asked! The really quick version is that ServiceHub is like your…
Hello, Kong Nation 👋 ! We've fashioned a pristine version of the Kong Gateway (OSS) 2.5, which is now available on the normal channels. Read on for more release information. Imagine you're visiting a banking website to transfer funds to friends and family during the holiday season. If the wire…
MS3 specializes in enterprise integration software, cloud migration strategies and API enablement. I've worked at MS3 for about five years. For the last year, I’ve been the principal product manager for Tavros , an enterprise integration platform from MS3. This article will dive into how we're…
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.