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Clone Yourself Through Automation to Get That Next Job

Clone Yourself Through Automation to Get That Next Job
AutomationOctober 15, 2021

If you could clone yourself, you could get your work done a lot faster, right? And that would free up time for you to pursue new projects and advance your career. It's an idea that Kong Vice President of Products Reza Shafii discussed recently as part of Destination: Automation , a free digital…

Josh Molina

Services Don’t Have to Be Eight-9s Reliable

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Thought LeadershipOctober 4, 2021

In our first episode of Kongcast , I had the pleasure of speaking with Liz Fong-Jones , principal developer advocate at Honeycomb , about the concept of error budgets for service level objectives (SLOs) and how to accelerate software delivery with observability. Check out the transcript and video…

Viktor Gamov

Balancing Innovation and Security With API Automation

Balancing Innovation and Security With Automation 2
API SecuritySeptember 16, 2021

Automating digital transformation API deployments can help speed time to market and minimize the resources required for the deployments — if developers can be assured that the automated process meets all necessary security requirements. It's a topic that Kong Senior CustomerExperience Manager Peggy…

Josh Molina

My DevOps Journey Beyond Configuration Management

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API DesignAugust 19, 2021

For most of my software engineering career, my experience with DevOps was all about configuration management. But after many years of experience with some key mentors, I began to see DevOps as so much more. In this article, I'll summarize my DevOps evolution from a high level. If you'd like to go…

Rick Sherman

How to Make Digital Transformation Work

How to Make Digital Transformation Work
Thought LeadershipAugust 13, 2021

The best way to appreciate key concepts involving digital transformation is to look at real-world examples. In a recent Kong webinar , I sat down with Solutions Engineer Ahmed Koshok as he reviewed several real-world case studies that help illuminate the role of microservices in making digital…

Josh Molina

The Real Cost of API Downtime

The Real Cost of Downtime
API ManagementJuly 29, 2021

Last week, the digital world experienced a power outage . A major distributed edge computing platform experienced a software bug that led to the collapse of their Domain Name System (DNS), or the Internet's way to map domain names (i.e. united.com) to IP addresses. The consequences were costly. So…

Margherita Andreassi

Scaling Down to Scale Up Using Kong’s API Gateway

Scaling Down to Scale Up Using Kong’s API Gateway
API GatewayJuly 22, 2021

This blog post is part two of a two-part series on how we broke down our monolith to scale our API management with Kong Gateway, the world's most popular open-source API gateway . ( Here's part one .) At NexJ , the pioneer of intelligent customer management with client engagement products designed…

Jelena Duma

Containerization in a Cloud Native World: An Interview With Reza Shafii

Containerization in a Cloud Native World: An Interview With Reza Shafii (Part 1)
Cloud NativeJune 3, 2021

Multi-cloud infrastructure is changing the way companies approach their software architecture. What started solely as gateway traffic management has evolved into full lifecycle API management . I recently sat down with Reza Shafii, Kong's VP of product, for a blog series where we explore how full…

Josh Molina

The key to a scalable platform

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API ManagementApril 14, 2021

While organizations work to innovate with new services and offerings, silos can lead to inefficient pockets, restricting the ability to take incubation projects to market. This can limit the speed and efficiency to scale the new offering. So how does your organization offer a scalable platform to…

Josh Molina

The Future Is Already Here – It's Just Not Evenly Distributed

The Future Is Already Here – It's Just Not Evenly Distributed
API ManagementJanuary 21, 2021

We're in the middle of the golden age of innovation that's creating absolutely astounding achievements. Within 10 years, Elon will land people on Mars , Germany won't have any gasoline cars on the road , and you'll be able to use more of your senses in virtual reality . This blade cuts both ways…

Zack Kielich

2021 Predictions: 5 Technology Trends in the Year Ahead

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CloudJanuary 5, 2021

In 2020, the acceleration of digital transformation quickly emerged as a top priority for many organizations as they grappled with the business impacts of an unexpected pandemic and raced to adapt to a new reality. As businesses begin to pivot out of the shadows of COVID-19 in 2021, what will this…

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Kong Welcomes Depop as a Customer to the Kong Family!

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Customer StoriesJuly 23, 2019

As we grow our footprint globally, we're gaining strong momentum in the UK. We recently added several fast-growing, London-based organizations to the Kong Enterprise community. These organizations are turning to Kong to help power their core business applications and accelerate application…

Sandeep Singh Kohli

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

Separating Control and Data Planes in Kong

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API GatewayMarch 28, 2018

Starting with Kong CE 0.13 and the upcoming EE 0.32, it is possible to separate control and data planes in a Kong cluster. So what are those planes? The control plane is how we instrument the system (pushing configs, fetching logs), whereas the data plane is the traffic that is actually being…

Thijs Schreijer
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