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Modern API architectures are no longer linear. A single request can traverse multiple layers of authentication, transformation, enrichment, and observability. As these flows grow more dynamic, the need for fine-grained control over when plugins execute becomes critical. For years, the standard…
Bringing APIs and events together has always been a challenge. REST APIs give developers a familiar interface, while event brokers like Solace Broker excel at fan-out, filtering, and scalable, reliable event delivery. The tricky part? Bridging these two worlds without building a lot of custom glue.…
The microservices revolution promised agility and scalability. Teams could deploy faster, scale independently, and innovate without monolithic constraints. You gain speed and flexibility, but you also multiply trust boundaries, identities, network paths, and policy decisions. Then came AI, and…
Modern enterprise architecture faces a three-body problem. Three distinct traffic patterns pull your teams in different directions. External APIs serve mobile apps and partner integrations. Internal microservices communicate within Kubernetes clusters. AI and LLM calls flow to OpenAI, AWS Bedrock,…
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…
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…
The promise of agentic AI is clear: autonomous systems that can reason, plan, and act on your behalf. But there's a fundamental problem standing between that vision and enterprise reality: agents need context to make decisions, and that context lives scattered across your organization. Context is…
An enterprise API strategy is no longer an optional IT exercise but a mandate for modern business survival. In the digital economy, your organization's internal connectivity, or lack thereof, determines your speed, agility, and capacity for innovation. This cookbook provides the eight essential…
The Challenge : API calls make up a massive 71% of all web traffic, yet many organizations still rely on traditional security tools designed for monolithic architectures. The Risk : Organizations face an average of 421 APIs to manage, with machine learning discovering 30.7% more API endpoints than…
This is the second of two blogs examining considerations for transitioning to a microservices-based architecture. For more information, check out our e-book Blowing Up the Monolith: Adopting a Microservices-Based Architecture . In our previous blog, we outlined the five questions we must consider…
Developers are turning to microservices in greater numbers to help break through the inflexibility of old monolithic applications. Microservices offer many benefits, including separation of concerns, team autonomy, fault tolerance, and scaling across multiple regions for high availability. Learn…
During the Kong Summit in September Chris Richardson, founder of CloudFoundry.com, gave an excellent talk describing the characteristics of microservice architectures . He outlined the benefits of microservices, including testability and deployability. He also discussed the drawbacks. Microservices…
In the modern SaaS world, observability is key to running software reliability, managing risks and deriving business value out of the code that you're shipping. To measure how your service is performing, you record Service Level Indicators (SLIs) or metrics, and alert whenever performance,…
Today we’re thrilled to announce a brand new product area for Kong – Kong Studio, an integrated design and test environment for Kong Enterprise customers. We are excited to make the leap in extending our service control platform to include pre-production use cases focused on improving the way that…
Transitioning to microservices has many advantages for teams building large applications that must accelerate the pace of innovation, deployments and time to market. It also provides them the opportunity to secure their applications and services better than they did with monolithic codebases.…