Automating repetitive processes is a key attribute in whole-product design. By combining payload observability with behavioral emails, Moesif is able to make you more productive through sophisticated workflows on many functional, performance and product issues. This article walks through how to set up playbooks that can save you time, resources and energy. We’ve highlighted a small number of key areas where our playbooks can assist you in the management of your product.
Over the last several years, as digital services and interfaces have become the primary way businesses interact with their customers, maintaining ‘business as usual’ has demanded digital transformation. In difficult times such as these, however, it may be tempting to put digital transformation projects on pause until budget surpluses return. This is a mistake.
Today, we are proud to announce the general availability (GA) of one of the most important releases of Kong Enterprise we’ve had to date — Kong Enterprise 2.1 is here! This release represents a fundamental shift in how customers can deploy, manage and scale Kong Enterprise across their organizations.
Maintaining the performance and reliability of your API platform are two of the most important issues to ensure the continuing success of your product. APIs should run as efficiently as possible, and one way of safeguarding that is to rate limit, or constrain, the number of HTTP requests made in a given time period.
Today, we hope to make testing Absinthe a bit easier for you. We believe that it’s a great library for writing GraphQL applications, but if you previously haven’t done much work on an Absinthe application, you might find some things a bit tricky to test.
It’s not every day that you learn your technology helped a company achieve their highest sales in company history. But that is the story of Kong and Papa John’s. I have always loved Papa John’s for their delicious pizza made with fresh ingredients, but what I also think of is their (incredibly addictive) Special Garlic Dipping Sauce.
Behavioral email is automated and targeted messages sent to customers based on their actions or behavior. By triggering on how your customers interact with your website or product, you’re able to send email whose content is actually aligned with what they’re doing, and will therefore be far more likely to resonate.
We are happy to announce the release of Kuma 0.7.1 with minor improvements and fixes, and a new official distribution: Helm Charts!
In support of our partnership with AWS and the AWS DevOps Competency program, we’re re-examining how some of our major customers are using Kong with AWS. To this end, let’s look at our popular case study with TUNE.
API testing remained an essential part of test automation and CI/CD process for QA teams to stay committed to short release cycles and frequent changes. API testing eliminates the need for maintaining scripts following the changes in the application under test’s UI. Read more API testing 101 Postman is a tool for API development, testing, and managing APIs for QA professionals. Postman was first developed as a side project for simplifying API workflow and testing projects.
There is a great number of logging plugins for Kong, which might be enough for your needs. However, they have certain limitations: Most of them only work on HTTP/HTTPS traffic. They make sense in an API gateway scenario, with a single Kong cluster proxying traffic between consumers and services. Each log line will generally correspond to a request which is “independent” from the rest.
The traditional definition of API monitoring has been around for years from companies like SmartBear, APIMetrics, and Runscope and useful to check API correctness and performance. An API monitoring tool initiates API calls against your chosen endpoints and then records the response received. Additional checks can be added such as create a slack alert on a 500 error or timeout.
You know the feeling. You’ve just deployed a new version to production and are monitoring the Rollbar dashboard for any new errors or looking out for any Slack notifications. You’re keeping an eye on the number of new or reactivated errors, their severity level, and triaging to see which errors need to be assigned and to whom. Now what if you could automate these tasks?
APIs are a critical component of any enterprise’s digital transformation strategy. They can drive customer engagement, accelerate time to market of new services, power innovation and unlock new business opportunities. Therefore, choosing the right API management platform is critical to running a successful API program, and research from industry analyst firms like Forrester Research can help enterprises evaluate and choose the right solution.
We are happy to announce the general availability of Kong Mesh 1.0! Kong Mesh is Kong’s first enterprise service mesh built on top of Kuma and Envoy that organizations can use to deploy a modern mesh across every application — running on both Kubernetes and VMs — and on every cloud or data-center.
Few things are more frustrating than slow, flaky test suites. You're ready to deploy, wait 20 minutes for CI to run, only to find that a test failure in code you've never touched is blocking you. You dig into the source and find the problem: an external API call. It works (slowly) most of the time. But sometimes the network glitches and it fails. What do you do? In this article, José Manuel shows us several techniques for removing external API dependencies from our tests.
Double your open rate by using behavioral emails. The best way of engaging your customers is to share content that resonates. And nothing resonates more than sending targeted emails to developers based on their own actions and behaviors. In a companion blog post, Behavioral Email Speeds API Integration, we explained how behaviorally-driven outreach to developers can speed API integration for an API product company.
