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Developers are turning to microservices in greater numbers to help break through the inflexibility of old monolithic applications. Microservices offer many benefits, including separation of concerns, team autonomy, fault tolerance, and scaling across multiple regions for high availability. Learn…
In the modern SaaS world, observability is key to running software reliability, managing risks and deriving business value out of the code that you're shipping. To measure how your service is performing, you record Service Level Indicators (SLIs) or metrics, and alert whenever performance,…
A year ago, Harry Bagdi wrote an amazingly helpful blog post on observability for microservices. And by comparing titles, it becomes obvious that my blog post draws inspiration from his work. To be honest, that statement on drawing inspiration from Harry extends well beyond this one blog post - but…
The more services you have running across different clouds and Kubernetes clusters, the harder it is to ensure that you have a central place to collect service mesh observability metrics. That's one of the reasons we created Kuma , an open source control plane for service mesh. In this tutorial,…
We're seeing a massive shift in how companies build their software. More and more, companies are building—or are rapidly transitioning—their applications to a microservice architecture. The monolithic application is giving way to the rise of microservices. Check out our free e-book as a guide to…
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…
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where all your service mesh services are running in Kubernetes, and now you need to expose them to the outside world securely and reliably? Ingress management is essential for your configuration and operations when exposing services outside of a cluster.…
At Kong, we run performance testing in CI in every commit or pull request that has a potential performance impact, as well as on each release. Thanks to the performance testing framework and its integration with Github Actions, we can easily get basic metrics like RPS and latency. Also, flame…
This blog was co-created by Ricardo Ferreira (Elastic) and Viktor Gamov (Kong). We love our microservices, but without a proper observability (O11y) strategy, they can quickly become cold, dark places cluttered with broken or unknown features. O11y is one of those technologies deemed created by…
In this episode of Kongcast , I spoke with Jason Yee , director of advocacy at Gremlin , about the concept of chaos engineering, why even the best engineers can't control everything, and tools and tactics to help build app resiliency. Check out the transcript and video from our conversation below,…
Monitoring the health of your production system involves keeping track of various data points in real time in order to derive insights from them. Day to day, monitoring can provide early indications of problems, giving the team time to investigate and fix before a system fails completely. If youre…
As infrastructure becomes more and more distributed, building better observability around it is becoming crucial. With the emergence of microservices architecture, teams want to gain better visibility with proper observability built into the architecture. In this blog post, we’ll explain how we…
As an application developer, have you ever had to troubleshoot an issue that only happens in production? Bugs can occur when your application gets released into the wild, and they can be extremely difficult to debug when you cannot reproduce without production data. In this blog, I am going to show…
In this post, we'll talk about what API SecOps is, including the fundamentals of it and the personas involved. Then, we'll discuss how API, microservice, and policy lifecycles integrate to produce a secure service in production, and why collaboration and API-First Design are essential for APISecOps…
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP for short) is a not-for-profit entity devoted to improving the security of software. Founded in 2001, OWASP is a global organization that supports thousands of volunteers globally to produce freely available articles, documentation, tutorials, and…