The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
APIs are at the backbone of every modern application that powers our day-to-day lives. As a matter of fact, API traffic today is at least 83% of the world’s global internet traffic [1], which underlines the importance of modern API infrastructure that can unlock innovation, agility, fast release…
We’re excited to announce the latest release for both Kuma and Kong Mesh. This cycle, we focused on simplifying enterprise-wide mesh deployments. We strongly suggest upgrading, in order to take advantage of the latest and greatest when it comes to service mesh. For more details, reference the Kuma…
Each year at Kong Summit , we shine a light on projects and people ahead of the pack in their use of Kong. And what better way to do that than with a shiny gorilla statue. We call them the API Innovator Awards . The API Innovator Awards recognize outstanding and future-facing projects from…
One of the most critical requirements for an Application Modernization project is to support workloads running on multiple platforms. In fact, such projects naturally include in their transformation process migrating workloads approach using the hybrid model. Another typical technical decision that…
As engineers and architects, we automatically build resilience into platforms as far as possible. But what about the unknown failures? What about the unknown behavior of your platform? The philosopher, Socrates, once said "You don’t know what you don’t know". What if I could tell you there is a way…
We are happy to announce the release of Kong Mesh 1.9 and Kuma 1.8! This release is packed with features and improvements such as observability for builtin Gateway, a complete rewrite of the CNI and projected service account tokens support. In order to take advantage of the latest and greatest in…
Kong Gateway is built on Nginx/OpenResty because it has a unique master/worker architecture, forks out many worker processes, and can utilize every CPU core efficiently. It is the powerhouse within Kong. But one master / multi workers architecture has an annoying defect. Each worker is an isolated…
Jeff Broberg, William Seaton and Peter Sullivan from Styra also contributed to this post API Gateway Authentication (AuthN) and Authorization (AuthZ) are important ways to control the data that is allowed to be transmitted using your APIs. Basically, it checks that a particular identity has…
IBM recently announced the deprecation of its Cloud API Gateway, a service used to create and manage APIs by placing a gateway in front of existing IBM Cloud endpoints. With this move, IBM Cloud Functions and IBM Cloud Foundry are no longer able to use Cloud API Gateway service for rate limiting,…
OAuth (short for Open Authorization) is a popular, standardized API protocol that provides a secure way for services to quickly share resources for a seamless user experience. Examples of OAuth in action include giving a greeting card service access to your photo library to make a custom holiday…
Have you ever worked on app development projects before? If so, then chances are that you have come across the term “GraphQL.” However, what exactly does it entail? Is it utilized in server or client-side configuration? Furthermore, when would Integration of GraphQL be preferred over other…
Engineering organizations building modern API-driven systems have different priorities when it comes to their API management solution. These priorities will drive design decisions about the deployment of various components for API gateways. Some organizations are looking to optimize compute…
As the world's most popular API Gateway , Kong Gateway is flexible and can be adapted to various environments and deployment configurations. This flexibility means some time should be taken to make good architectural decisions for the use cases in mind. For example, the best configuration for a…
In this article, we'll talk about the differences between an API gateway and an API proxy — as well as a reverse proxy. We'll cover use cases and when each might be the right tool for the project at hand, including the advantages of API gateways over API proxies and reverse proxies. An API…
API gateways and load balancers are useful tools for building modern applications. While they have some functionality overlaps, they're distinct tools with different purposes and use cases. In this article, we'll discuss the differences between API gateways and load balancers, give examples of…