April 14, 2023 Product Releases | 4 MIN READ Kong Mesh & Kuma 2.2 Released with Global Rate Limiting, OpenTelemetry, and More We’re excited to announce the release of Kong Mesh and Kuma 2.2. This new minor release adds some long-awaited enterprise features, more incremental improvements to our UI and policies, and many more minor features… Continue reading
July 5, 2022 Engineering | 5 MIN READ How to rate limit your requests per consumer groups One of the most common use cases our customers are using Kong for is rate limiting. There are a few common reasons for doing this: Performance – How can you… Continue reading
May 26, 2022 Engineering | 6 MIN READ Advanced rate limiting policies with Kong and Hazelcast Kong Gateway integrates with Hazelcast to implement advanced policies for rate limiting besides the fundamental options provided by the Kong plugins, including distributed compute, security, zero downtime, and cloud agnostic.… Continue reading
November 16, 2021 Engineering | 8 MIN READ Deploying a Multi-Cloud API Gateway on AWS and GCP After you’ve built your microservices-backed application, it’s time to deploy and connect them. Luckily, there are many cloud providers to choose from, and you can even mix and match. Many… Continue reading
May 18, 2021 Engineering | 8 MIN READ Protecting Services With Kong Gateway Rate Limiting 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… Continue reading
January 15, 2021 Engineering | 10 MIN READ How to Design a Scalable Rate Limiting Algorithm with Kong API What is rate limiting? Rate limiting protects your APIs from inadvertent or malicious overuse by limiting how often each user can call the API. Without rate limiting, each user may… Continue reading