The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
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…
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…
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…
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…
In this episode of Kongcast , I had the pleasure of speaking with Viktor Farcic , developer advocate at Upbound , about why empowering developers to manage the full application lifecycle helps app development teams increase efficiency. Check out the transcript and video from our conversation below,…
In part 1 of this series on Kubernetes , we discussed how companies like VMware offer the necessary tools to launch, monitor, create and destroy virtual machines. In this post, we review how - much like virtual machines - containers need to be created, monitored, destroyed and relaunched to account…
Changing the technology an organization works with is a bit like taking up a new sport. Your initial excitement leads you to buy the most expensive equipment you can find, leaving you soon to realize that your new tools have created a steep learning curve. Transitioning out of monolithic…
Composable business. APIOps. Hyperautomation. Open policy agent. These are among the themes we're expecting to hear a lot more of in 2022. Here are 12 key developments we're beginning to see in the world of digital transformation, APIs and the cloud. A composable business is an agile business that…
I've just got off a call with one of the largest banks in Sweden, and my brain is racing with ideas. I need to get this down on paper. I want to drop everything I'm doing and spend the next week in that mental headspace where all you do is explore and live and…
TBC Bank is a technology-driven company in Georgia. We are happy to announce that we have chosen Kong to improve our API ecosystem and leverage its technological resources, expertise and international footprint to further simplify the daily lives of our users. TBC wanted to partner with a company…
This is the second part of our three-part blog series on APIs, sustainability and climate change. Missed the first part? Check it out here . In this blog, we examine ways to consume and embed APIs to make our own processes greener and show how APIs are the building blocks of a new wave…
Recently, I was fortunate to have an insightful conversation with Matt Klein, Lyft software engineer and creator of Envoy , the popular open-source edge and service proxy for cloud-native applications. Envoy was the third project to graduate from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF),…
This is Part 1 of a three-part blog series that will dive into industry insights from technology leaders who are facing the next wave of digital innovation head-on. Today, we meet again at the cusp of the next frontier. This time, it's Web3, the metaverse and boundless connectivity. Businesses…
One of the most common questions we're asked by prospective customers is "what's the right way to get started with API monetization?" In this article, we'll do our best to lay out what we've seen work most frequently — and call out a few common pitfalls as well. What we can say with certainty…
You would think in the Internet age, primary sources for a widely discussed event — one that's helped define cloud computing and today's cascading digital transformation of enterprises — would be easy to track down. The original footprint must be somewhere. But that's not so in the case of the…