# How to Drive Innovation using Kong Mesh and Kong Gateway: A Conversation with Moderna

As a pioneering biotechnology company, Moderna's mission is to deliver on the promise of mRNA science to create a new generation of transformative medicines for patients. To achieve those goals, they rely heavily on data that they need to produce, analyze, and search. When the engineering team at Moderna realized they needed to build an innovative technical infrastructure that incorporated service mesh to support their goals, they turned to Kong Gateway and Mesh to help.

Join Nathaniel Reynolds, Associate Director of Informatics Architecture & DevOps at Moderna, and Kong CTO and Co-Founder Marco Palladino to learn how Moderna's future-focused investment in their architecture connects to their mission of bringing life-changing medicine to the world.

Key Takeaways

• - The technical infrastructure challenges Moderna was trying to solve
• - Why they chose Kong as the technology partner to solve these challenges
• - How they use Kong Gateway and Kong Mesh together
• - How their architecture including service mesh impacts their ability to deliver on their mission