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The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.

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Kong Gateway OSS Turns Six!

Kong Gateway OSS 6th Anniversary
Open SourceMay 28, 2021

🎂 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…

Marco Palladino

Applying Authorization Code Flow With Kong and Okta

Kong and Okta Authorization Code Flow
Kong KonnectMay 27, 2021

In our second Kong and Okta tutorial, we'll go through the authorization code flow applied to user authentication processes. This series will show you how to implement service authentication and authorization for Kong Konnect and Okta using the OpenID Connect ( OIDC ) plugin. Parts 1, 3 and 4…

Claudio Acquaviva

How to Create a Custom Lua Plugin for Kong Gateway

Creating Your First Custom Plugin for Kong Gateway in Lua
API GatewayMarch 18, 2021

This tutorial shows you how easy it is to build a custom Lua plugin for Kong Gateway. My Kong Lua plugin example will automatically add a custom header to any response sent out, indicating the current plugin version. Kong API Gateway is built on OpenResty , which extends the NGINX proxy server to…

Thijs Schreijer

Authorizing Microservice APIs With OPA and Kuma

Authorizing Microservices with OPA and Kuma
KumaMarch 16, 2021

Many companies are leveraging DevOps, microservices , automation, self-service, cloud and CI/CD pipelines. These megatrends are changing how companies are building and running software. One thing that often slips through the cracks is security. With microservices, there's an increase in the number…

Tim Hinrichs

Announcing Insomnia 2021.1

Introducing gRPC Support for Insomnia
InsomniaMarch 4, 2021

TL;DR Insomnia Designer and Insomnia Core are now Insomnia. Insomnia Designer users will have to migrate to the new Insomnia application and Designer will no longer receive updates. When we originally built Insomnia Designer, we didn’t want to make large changes to Insomnia without understanding…

Nijiko Yonskai

How to Scale Your API Ecosystem on an Open Source API Gateway

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Open SourceMarch 2, 2021

This article was written by Jeremy Justus and Ross Sbriscia, senior software engineers from UnitedHealth Group/Optum. This blog post is part three of a three-part series on how they've scaled their API management with Kong Gateway , the world's most popular open source API gateway. (Here's part

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Why Large Enterprises Should Embrace an Open Source API Gateway

Why Large Enterprises Should Embrace an Open Source API Gateway
Open SourceFebruary 18, 2021

This article was written by Jeremy Justus and Ross Sbriscia, senior software engineers from UnitedHealth Group/Optum. This blog post is part two of a three-part series on how we've scaled our API management with Kong Gateway , the world's most popular open source API gateway. (Here’s part one…

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Transform Your Requests/Responses With the Kong Reedelk Transformer Plugin

Transform Your Requests/Responses With the Kong Reedelk Transformer Plugin
Open SourceOctober 23, 2020

Creating an API contract and corresponding Kong service are often just the first steps in the API development process. More often than not, the upstream services that are invoked provide a different contract to the one presented to the API consumer. This is especially the case in larger…

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Introducing Insomnia Designer: An Open Source Collaborative Editor for API Design

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Open SourceApril 29, 2020

Today, we're thrilled to announce the release of a major expansion to the Insomnia family of open source developer tools — Insomnia Designer ! Providing a collaborative environment for editing GraphQL and REST APIs, Insomnia Designer allows developer teams to more easily embrace spec-first…

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Sharpening the Axe: Our Journey into Disruption with Kong

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Thought LeadershipJanuary 1, 2019

Jason Walker shares how Cargill is using Kong to transform legacy architecture with a “Cloud first, but not always” approach. Hear why Cargill chose Kong for their API gateway as part of their internal API platform, Capricorn, allowing Jason's small team to stay nimble while they administer…

Mike Bilodeau

Community Call Starts Out Kong Strong

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EventsOctober 5, 2018

Big thanks to the 37 people who joined us on the first-ever Kong Community Call! The inspiring demo, interesting discussion and enthusiastic participation have me looking forward to the monthly calls moving forward! As an evangelist for Kong, it makes me really happy to see such great participation…

Judith Malnick

Announcing Kong 1.0

Announcing Kong 1.0
Kong GatewaySeptember 18, 2018

Nearly four years ago, we open-sourced Kong and made it available to the world. Since then, Kong has been downloaded over 45 million times, been deployed in production at some of the largest companies and government agencies worldwide and attracted 110 open source contributors. Today, we're proud…

Mike Bilodeau
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