February 1, 2023 Engineering | 16 MIN READ Building gRPC APIs with Rust Viktor Gamov also contributed to this post. In recent decades it’s become common for communication between backend services to employ HTTP APIs with JSON payloads. Many HTTP APIs adhere (or… Continue reading
November 14, 2022 Engineering | 4 MIN READ How to Use Prometheus to Monitor Kong Gateway 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… Continue reading
November 3, 2022 Engineering | 5 MIN READ Transforming Kong Logs for Ingestion into Your Observability Stack As a Solutions Engineer here at Kong, one question that frequently comes across my desk is “how can I transform a Kong logging plugin message into a format that my… Continue reading
November 3, 2022 Engineering | 7 MIN READ Dynamic Routing Based on JWT Token’s Claim with Kong Konnect A common use case that is frequently requested is how to dynamically route requests based on authentication attributes. An example of this technique is routing requests to relevant upstream services… Continue reading
October 19, 2022 Engineering | 13 MIN READ Writing an eBPF/XDP load-balancer in Rust In today’s cloud ecosystem the demands for high functioning and high performance observability, security and networking functionality for applications and their network traffic are as high as ever. Historically a… Continue reading
September 15, 2022 Engineering | 6 MIN READ API Composition with StepZen and Kong There are many pros and cons for both GraphQL and REST APIs, but one of the areas where GraphQL really shines is API composition. Taking data from multiple APIs and… Continue reading