Financial services innovation continues to progress at a breakneck pace. For example, fintech developers can programmatically spin up accounts, move money, and issue and manage cards with Increase or embed financial services into their marketplace with Stripe – capabilities that were unimaginable just a few years ago.
Kong Summit has come and gone! Whether you joined us in San Francisco or missed this year’s big shindig, here are some of the highlights from the event and a round-up of all the Kong news dropped over the past two days. This post will continue to be updated with more details and links to videos from sessions as they’re available.
Developers already love Fivetran’s docs. Our new API reference gives them even more to love.
If you’re looking for ways to improve customer satisfaction, experience, and loyalty, you need to focus on how customers are using and adopting your product. For this, you’ll need to focus on your user funnel, sometimes referred to as a conversion funnel. In this article, we’ll show you seven ways that user funnels can improve some key areas of your business to boost all of the above!
Kong has been hard at work to provide our customers’ the best user experience of running our products in the AWS cloud. We’ve seen tremendous growth in our partnership with AWS in terms of joint solutions (co-build), building awareness through events and workshops (co-market), and growth in the adoption of our solutions (co-sell). In fact, Kong has seen exponential growth in our Kong on AWS business year over year.
As companies are transforming themselves to compete in the cloud era, there’s renewed emphasis on delivering seamless customer experience, improving IT infrastructure, and releasing applications faster. As companies embark on the cloud adoption journey, Red Hat OpenShift gives developers a greater choice of components to build robust applications.
We’re excited to announce that Kong Insomnia now supports Websocket APIs. This is an important expansion to our API platform and is currently available in Kong Insomnia versions 2022.6.0 and above. The Kong Insomnia team is very thankful for our deeply enthusiastic and engaged community, and providing Websocket API support has been one of the most popular feature requests we’ve seen to date.
Kong Gateway 3.0 is an important milestone that introduces the next evolution of our cloud-native API platform. Both the enterprise and open source editions of Kong Gateway 3.0 are available now from your favorite distribution channels. With Kong Gateway 3.0, we are introducing many powerful features that deliver the following key benefits:
Christian Heidenreich and Sunny Xia also contributed to this post. We’re excited to announce a new release of Kong Konnect, the end-to-end SaaS API lifecycle management platform. This release introduces a number of brand new features as well as improve existing features that empower you to efficiently publish, consume, secure, analyze, and manage APIs and services across all your applications in any environment. Read on to learn more about the new capabilities in Kong Konnect.
WSO2 will be officially moving from Slack to Discord from Saturday, October 1, 2022. Our Slack community has grown to over 7,000 users, and we are excited to have them be a part of our new community on Discord! You can join the WSO2 server by clicking here. We love Slack, but it's not built for large online communities as it lacks certain moderation features. Which makes sense – after all, Slack was built for corporate teams.
WSO2, a leading fully open source API Management solution provider, today announced that Forrester has recognized WSO2 as a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: API Management Solutions, Q3 2022. WSO2 received the highest possible scores in the commercial model and supporting services criteria. The report can be accessed here.
The right tiered pricing strategy can ensure you effectively monetize your APIs and other digital products, encouraging your customers to spend more whilst ensuring they are happy about doing so. But get it wrong and you can irritate your customers and push them towards your competitors. In this post we’ll explain how to get your tiered pricing right and maximize your API’s revenue.
Fivetran Metadata API enables the tracking of data “in-flight” from source to destination as it moves through Fivetran-managed pipelines — delivering full visibility of data movement across systems.
Product retention is an extremely important metric to check the health of your business. Calculating the retention rate of your business will return the percentage of users who continue using your product or service over a given time period. Retention can really be seen as a gauge for customer loyalty and a good reflection of the quality of your customer relationship with a new or existing customer.
If you're looking to build or expand upon a microservices architecture, then you need to seriously consider an API gateway. An API gateway is a critical piece of infrastructure that can help you build a scalable, secure, and efficient microservices architecture. They are an essential part of any API strategy. It acts as a single point of entry for all your API traffic, making it easier to manage and monitor your API traffic.
There are many pros and cons for both GraphQL and REST APIs, but one of the areas where GraphQL really shines is API composition. Taking data from multiple APIs and combining them to make something new is a key part of delivering a useful service.
Recovering revenue is an important part of running a successful venture in the modern API economy. With an API product it can be easy to undervalue your services and, ultimately, your business. This is why many API providers turn to billing customers for their usage, but which API monetization method is best for your product stack? Moesif enables you to make smart, informed decisions around your customers and maximize the monetization of your business model.
Security best practices remain a top priority for enterprises, especially as high-profile hacks and cybersecurity breaches pose increased risks. According to the 2022 Morgan Stanley CIO survey, IT spending is expected to reach 4.4%, with cloud computing and security software as the leading verticals. This rapid digital transformation across sectors presents organizations with opportunities, along with some new challenges.
Sometimes you may have related events that you want to group together or want to give a friendly name to events. This could be especially true if you have a group of API calls you want to combine into a single API product. Fortunately with Moesif you can do exactly that, so that groups of events can be looked at as a single unit, like a SKU. In Moesif, this can be done by using the Event Tag feature.
Pricing APIs correctly is a key part of your API monetization strategy. That means understanding how you should charge for usage, whether it’s better to set your pricing by month or quarter, whether data tiers or a Pay As You Go API pricing model would work best and a whole host of other elements. In this post we’ll cover all you need to know when pricing APIs.
When deploying any application that holds customer or user data, both data compliance and data privacy are important areas to consider. Yet these two areas of data management are sometimes misunderstood. This blog post will shed some light on the differences between data compliance and data privacy.
In this Postman load testing tutorial, you'll learn how to run a large scale load test in Kubernetes using your existing Postman collections. Because HTTP services don't have a graphical user interface, it's common to build collections of requests using Postman during the development process. These collections are useful for running quick functionality tests as you develop each endpoint. However, as the service grows you eventually need to test it in a more realistic way with larger volume. This is called a load or stress test. Speedscale is a Production Data Simulation Platform that includes this stress/load testing capability out of the box.
There is an understated art to building good APIs – ones that are easy to integrate with, have high operational availability, offer readily attainable performance insights, and are easy to maintain. But if you have ever had to build an API from scratch, there is no denying that it is hard – and it gets much more complicated when you aim to deliver a quality API.
Testing is the bottleneck of devops. 80% of testing is done manually. This is time-consuming, error-prone, tedious, and expensive. It's a hundred times more expensive to fix an error caught in production versus an error caught. Dev teams are being pushed to release code faster, release new features faster, and beat their competitors in every possible way. Automation is a cheaper and more accurate way to test. It lets everyone focus on most important goals.
This article is about how to secure WSO2 Micro Integrator on microservices integration deployment. It describes how to use keystores, secure vaults, and more. WSO2 Micro Integrator is an integration solution widely used in enterprise integration. You can use WSO2 Micro Integrator to implement mediation policies, message transformation, security, and more. In this article, let’s focus on how you can securely place WSO2 Micro Integrator on your deployment.
Our latest release of Kong Konnect augments the security and compliance of the offering through enhanced authentication capabilities. Through the rest of this post, we’ll walk you through each of these features and explore what’s new in this Kong Konnect release.
