The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
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.…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
[](/blog/engineering/transition-to-microservices-what-now)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.