The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
Razorpay is a payments processor that's required to comply with PCI guidelines . This article will explain how we developed a custom Lua plugin to simplify PCI compliance with Kong Gateway . The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) is a set of requirements to ensure that all…
🎂 Make a wish and blow out the candles…we're celebrating Kong's sixth anniversary! 👏👏👏 In 2015, Mashape open sourced Kong Gateway , launching the next generation of API management. In our last anniversary post, I took a look back at our history . For this 6th anniversary post, I'll focus on how…
We recently sat down to discuss the language for the next Kong Gateway Plugin Development Kit (PDK). Given the number of JavaScript developers in the world and the variety of libraries and debugging tools available, there was only one logical choice. I'm excited to share that with the Kong Gateway…
The Kong Gateway Rate Limiting plugin is one of our most popular traffic control add-ons. You can configure the plugin with a policy for what constitutes "similar requests" (requests coming from the same IP address, for example), and you can set your limits (limit to 10 requests per minute, for…
Change is the primary cause of service reliability issues for agile engineering teams. In this post, I’ll cover how you can limit the impact of a buggy change, making it past your quality gates with Kong Gateway and Spinnaker for canary deployment. ~Mark Russinovich, CTO of Azure, on Advancing safe…
This tutorial shows you how to create a custom Kong Gateway plugin with Go programming language. The sample plugin I created adds an extra layer for security between consumers and producers. The way it works is it identifies consumers through a consumer-key from a query string. Without this…
In this Kong Gateway tutorial, you'll learn how to: Keep in mind that these instructions are a starting point. You may need to change some of the steps to harden your environment when running in production. For more detailed information, visit our Kong Gateway documentation . One of the reasons…
Today, we have really exciting news to share with you all. The Enterprise version of our Kong Gateway is now generally available, and it's like nothing we've ever released before. One standout component of version 2.3 is that it now has a "free" operating mode so that anyone can start off using the…
This article was written by Jeremy Justus and Ross Sbriscia, senior software engineers from UnitedHealth Group/Optum. As part of the UnitedHealth Group (UHG), Optum optimizes healthcare technology, and one of our important missions is to provide the tech infrastructure for this Fortune 7 healthcare…
This article was written by Charles Boicey, Chief Innovation Officer at Clearsense. If healthcare data is genuinely going to impact a person’s well-being, we have to consider all patient data. Patients don’t spend much time with clinicians allowing them to collect data. Even most hospitalized…
This article was written by Ivan Rylach, a staff software engineer from Checkr. Checkr is the leading technology company in the background check industry. The company was moving to a services-oriented architecture. To scale this process, we switched to a declarative configuration for API…
Building a multi-region or multi-cloud environment for your applications requires a lot of attention. In a typical deployment, you would have an API gateway running close to the several application runtimes. You should enhance your deployment to support different regions in a given cloud, or in an…
You've decided to install Kong Gateway. Congrats! You're almost ready to accelerate your microservices journey with the world's most popular open source API gateway . This article and video will guide you through the short version of our tutorial. If you prefer, here are some more detailed…
We are happy to announce release 2.2 of our flagship open source API gateway! Those were some busy three months since the release of Kong Gateway 2.1! We have pushed a number of patch releases in the 2.1 series, we’ve had our first fully-digital Kong Summit , and of course, we’ve been very busy…
Having worked with many customers and prospects at Kong, one of the main requirements we often hear is how to handle dynamic routing based on the URL and headers. In this blog post, I will cover different use cases we come across for dynamic routing and how Kong can address them. The default…
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.