It is high time we put out an edition of the GraphQL tutorial for our QA teams. There is a lot of material and more confusion on how to create GraphQL APIs on the internet. As if the idea of REST was easy for teams to understand – the definition of REST has always stopped just at the abbreviation, Representational State Transfer. Developers and Testers alike don’t really understand the concept. We know how to create REST APIs and how to test them and that works for us.

At Kong, we’re always looking to expand the experience of running our products in the AWS cloud. As we steadily move into 2023, we want to continue this streak because we see firsthand the tremendous growth and success it provides our customers. Today, we’re excited to announce that the Kong API management platforms, Kong Enterprise and Kong Konnect, are validated integrations with Amazon VPC Lattice.

Welcome to the world of API testing. If you’re reading this, you’re probably looking to learn the basics of testing APIs or wondering how and where to start. This article will help you understand more about APIs, what types of tests you need to perform, and how to execute them and what to validate as part of the testing process.

We’re happy to announce the release of Kong Ingress Controller (KIC) 2.9, in which we’ve taken significant steps towards solution extensibility, deployment flexibility, and lowering the cost of ownership. KIC now offers a number of features that we think you’ll be excited about: Here are the details about each of these features.

Many API developers and companies struggle to find ways to easily set up systems to unlock revenue from their APIs. Some are simple but not customizable while others are complex and require massive engineering effort to actually get it all running. To make things easier, Moesif created the Billing Meters feature which allows for massive customization with a minimal amount of code and engineering effort.

The concept of the "digital double" isn’t new, but it’s gaining importance as more and more of our lives are lived in the digital world. Asanka Abeysinghe, WSO2's chief technology officer and the creator of this concept, was a guest on a recent KuppingerCole videocast hosted by Martin Kuppinger, founder and principal analyst at KuppingerCole. During the discussion, Asanka spoke about this unique concept, its benefits, and how it relates to customer identity and access management (CIAM).

If you don't understand how an API works, you can't get the best out of it. That's one problem. The other is that they keep increasing in number, but the quality of the documentation for each of them doesn't. Lack of clear, quality documentation leads to more difficulty for developers, and with more difficulty comes less chance they integrate the API. Which could also be your API. That's where API exploration tools like SwaggerHub Explore come in handy to make this all way simpler.

At the beginning of 2021, a brand new data team was assembled to build a real-time data platform for Kong’s SaaS platform, Konnect. Our mission is to provide top-notch real-time API analytics features for Konnect customers. V1 platform architecture The initial backend consisted of three main components: an ingestion service to handle incoming telemetry requests, an intermediate message queue, and a real-time OLAP data storage.

In this blog we are going to learn about the technical challenges behind solving GraphQL authorization and how many organizations resolve it today. Then discuss how a Kong / OPA integration can help drive security standards in this space and bring some parity with REST API solutions. Last, we will end with a quick tutorial.

Flutter, introduced by Google, is an open-source software development kit (SDK) that enables developers to create high-quality and high-performance cross-platform applications for mobile, web, desktop, and embedded apps with a single codebase.

We’re excited to announce the latest release in our product lineup — WSO2 API Manager 4.2. The product now comes with enhanced features to support a wider range of practical applications around API service design, creation, integration, development, and exposure.

Application Modernization projects often require their workloads to run on multiple platforms which requires a hybrid model. Kong Konnect is an API lifecycle management platform delivered as a service. The Control Plane, responsible for admin tasks, is hosted in the cloud by Kong. The Data Plane, totally based on Kong Gateway, can be deployed across multiple environments including VMs, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.

Kong is proud to announce our first-ever Long Term Support (LTS) version of Kong Enterprise. Kong Enterprise 2.8 LTS will be supported up to March 25, 2025. LTS is an industry term for a software release that is supported for a longer period of time than other releases. LTS versions are popular because once users are on an LTS version, they can rest assured that this version will continue to receive technical support and security updates during the LTS period.

Today, we are very excited to announce the acquisition of Aspecto, an OpenTelemetry (OTel) pioneer whose capabilities will further extend SmartBear’s modern, developer-focused observability capabilities. Aspecto’s solution discovers modern microservice based architectures and visualizes all the real-time interactions between services and APIs through advanced distributed tracing capabilities.

Visual appearance is the first thing users notice when visiting a website or mobile app – before reading content or interacting with any elements. In fact, TopTal found that 94% of first impressions are design-related and judgements on a website’s credibility are 75% based on its overall aesthetics. So, even the slightest discrepancy could cost you sign-ups or conversions.

Has the purchasing process changed in your org over the last couple of years? Are additional roles, potentially all the way up to members of the c-suite, now a part of the evaluation and/or approval stages of that process? For many, the answer is yes.

As developer pressure mounts and calls for better software quality get louder, end-to-end visibility has become crucial. It’s time to provide visibility to software development teams everywhere. – SmartBear CEO Frank Roe There’s one inarguable result of the rapid acceleration of business demands, consumer expectations, and an endless, growing list of innovative technologies in the software industry – immense pressure felt by development teams across the globe.

Amazon API Gateway is a service offered by AWS that enables users to create, publish, and maintain secure APIs on any scale. It supports both RESTful APIs and WebSocket APIs. However, It's crucial to secure these APIs before allowing applications to access them. The use of OAuth2 tokens and JWTs is the standard method of securing APIs.

“Software is eating the world” and “APIs are eating software” have become familiar proclamations across the modern-day software industry. Given the resounding hype, interest, and substantial monetary investments happening in Artificial Intelligence (AI), a likely follow-on statement is, “AI is eating APIs, software, and everything else!”

API testing services are becoming increasingly important for businesses of all sizes. With the right API testing service, companies can ensure that their web applications and services are secure, reliable, and performant. But with so many software testing service providers out there, how do you choose the best API testing company? Choosing the best API testing service provider can be a challenging task.

You don’t need to be a data science expert to make use of platform analytics to gain better insights into your business. From Google Analytics to deep-dive data analytics for your APIs, big data is your friend when it comes to understanding your company. The right analytics platform can open up your data in a user-friendly way that empowers you to fuel better-informed business decisions based on your performance, customer data and analytics.

E-commerce businesses lose 35% of their revenue due to poor user experience, according to Amazon Web Services, or about $1.4 trillion annually. On the other hand, UX Planet found that every dollar spent on improving UX/UI will return $10 to $100 – especially for software-as-a-service (SaaS) businesses with sticky business models. Let's examine why customer experience matters and how you can leverage functional and visual testing to eliminate errors.

Moesif has been named the Top B2B Tech Product in the 2023 Product Awards; Moesif won the Award as one of the Best Products for Product Managers. The Product Awards, presented by Products That Count in partnership with Mighty Capital and Capgemini, is the only awards show designed to celebrate the tools that help Product Managers build great products.

Our next-generation API management platform built on a Kubernetes-native architecture on top of Envoy Proxy

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 resource utilization, helping to control costs or reduce operational toil.

Wondering what’s new in Kong Konnect? In this roundup, we’ll highlight some of the new capabilities and expansions in Kong Konnect, including portal role-based access control (RBAC) API, OAS validation plugin, and support for Kong Gateway 3.2. Read on to learn more.

Kong Konnect is a powerful SaaS-based API lifecycle management platform that provides a fast path for people looking to get started with Kong API Gateway. For existing users of Kong’s open-source gateway, it offers a way to rapidly take advantage of a scalable, highly-available architecture while upgrading to an Enterprise-class feature set and support options.