Synchronous Communication Patterns: A Journey from ESB to APIs & Service Mesh

Devoteam nexDigital is a leading IT consulting company specializing in the modernization and transformation of Information Systems. In this session, Yohann AGOSTINI, CTO at Devoteam nexDigital, will discuss how their customer, a major French insurance company, has redefined and evolved its legacy Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) integration architecture to a modern-day microservices and service mesh-based architecture. This session explores the benefits of adopting service mesh technology to handle the complex connectivity, security and reliability challenges between services deployed across VM-based and Kubernetes infrastructures.

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The Importance of API Management Governance

API management gives your organization a fantastic toolbox that enables digital transformation. In order to properly utilize these tools and gain the value a service mesh provides, it is important to define a proper governance framework and define your organization’s rules regarding:
– Roles and responsibilities for development and a development portal
– Service mesh vs. event mesh
– API patterns and policies
– Naming standards and metadata for applications and APIs
– API lifecycles
– Service mesh vs. integration platform
– Monitoring, KPIs and distribution of this information

During this session, we will go through the framework and show an example of how this adds value to your organization’s use of Kong.

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Work Smarter, Not Harder: Using ML to Observe Your Kuma API Metrics

Observability is catching on these days as the de-facto way to provide visibility into essential aspects of systems. It would be unwise for you not to leverage it with Kuma…

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Styra DAS & Kong Mesh: Policy-as-Code to Control Microservice-Based Communication at Scale

It wasn’t that long ago that coarse-grained access control lists (ACL) rules on a network firewall were enough to satisfy security requirements. As application architectures have become more distributed —…

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Supercharge Ingress with Kong Gateway and Kong Mesh

Have you ever found yourself in a situation when all your services are running in Kubernetes, and now you need to expose them to the outside world securely and reliably?…

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Service Mesh Connectivity

Kong Mesh is a service mesh that is based on Kuma, an open-source, CNCF project and supports every environment, including Kubernetes and virtual machines. In this service mesh demo, we…

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