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April 2023

What is gRPC?

gRPC is an open source remote procedure call (RPC) framework that enables client and server applications to communicate with each other remotely and transparently. In this blog post, we are going to discuss gRPC. First, we’ll talk about RPCs and why they are important. Then we’ll explain how gRPC works, taking a closer look at protocol buffers and the architecture of gRPC.

Building Cloud Native Data Apps on Premises

Data is core to decision making today and organizations often turn to the cloud to build modern data apps for faster access to valuable insights. With cloud operating models, decision making can be accelerated, leading to competitive advantages and increased revenue. Can you achieve similar outcomes with your on-premises data platform? You absolutely can.

Reach for the Clouds: A Crawl/Walk/Run Strategy with Kong and AWS

I once heard someone say, “What the cloud migration strategies lack at the moment is a methodology to Lift-and-Shift connections to the cloud.” Let’s digest that. In today’s landscape, maintaining a competitive edge and delivering a high-quality customer experience is becoming synonymous with migrating to the cloud. As of 2022, 57% of organizations are migrating more workloads to the cloud.

eBPF: The future of the service mesh and network innovation

The conversations around eBPF and how this technology will shape the future of the service mesh caused a huge buzz in the last year — yes, bee pun intended. eBPF lets you run sandboxed programs in an operating system kernel. Imagining how eBPF could improve the service mesh brings exciting possibilities, but it also raises security and operational concerns given the current state and limitations of eBPF.

Reach for the Clouds: A Crawl/Walk/Run Strategy with Kong and AWS - Part 1: Crawl

Reach for the Clouds: A Crawl/Walk/Run Strategy with Kong and AWS - Part 1: Crawl Brought to you by @KongInc Senior Partner Developer Danny Freese Welcome to the "Crawl" stage of our Cloud Migration Journey! In this tutorial, we will show you how to de-risk and lift-and-shift your connections using Kong Mesh and #Konnect during a migration to the cloud. The "Crawl" stage is the first phase of our 3-phased approach, and it aims to deploy the monolith and Konnect runtime instance, and onboard the monolith to Konnect.

Reach for the Clouds: A Crawl/Walk/Run Strategy with Kong and AWS - Part 2: Walk

Reach for the Clouds: A Crawl/Walk/Run Strategy with Kong and AWS - Part 2: Walk Brought to you by @KongInc Senior Partner Developer Danny Freese Welcome to the "Walk" stage of the Cloud Migration Journey, where we will take you through the second phase of the migration process. In this stage, we will show you how to de-risk and lift-and-shift your connections during the migration process to the cloud using Konnect and Kong Mesh.

Reach for the Clouds: A Crawl/Walk/Run Strategy with Kong and AWS - Part 3: Run

Reach for the Clouds: A Crawl/Walk/Run Strategy with Kong and AWS - Part 2: Walk Brought to you by @KongInc Senior Partner Developer Danny Freese In this video, we'll guide you through the "Run" stage of the cloud migration journey, the final step of our crawl-walk-run tutorial. By this point, you should have already deployed the monolith and Konnect runtime instance, onboarded the monolith to Konnect, deployed the Kong Mesh control plane and the on-prem mesh zone, and reconfigured the Konnect runtime-instance so that runtime-instance monolith communication occurs over the mesh.
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Is legacy software putting your organisation in technical debt? The cloud can bail you out

'Legacy' is a kind word when combined with the word 'software.' While it conventionally invokes some sense of grandeur or wisdom, 'outdated' or 'obsolete' are often closer to the truth. With the current economic downturn placing serious pressures on many businesses, for some it has exposed small but long-standing cracks that are now starting to fissure.

Cloud Vs. Colocation: Which Is the Right Choice for Your Business?

There are various approaches to hosting and managing your IT infrastructure, but it ultimately comes down to control. While on-premise setups involve keeping physical hardware and other infrastructure elements on-site, cloud computing provides computing resources in a virtualized environment, reducing maintenance tasks for your IT team. A third approach to IT hosting and management has increased in popularity in recent years.

AWS DMS: Challenges & Solutions Guide

AWS DMS (Amazon Web Services Database Migration Service) is a managed solution for migrating databases to AWS. It allows users to move data from various sources to cloud-based and on-premises data warehouses. However, users often encounter challenges when using AWS DMS for ongoing data replication and high-frequency change data capture (CDC) processes.

Secret rotation for Kafka Connect connectors with AWS Secret Manager

With version 5.1, Lenses is now offering enterprise support for our popular open-source Secret Provider to customers. In this blog, we’ll explain how secrets for Kafka Connect connectors can be safely protected using Secret Managers and walk you through configuring the Lenses S3 Sink Connector with the Lenses Secret Provider plugin and AWS Secret Manager.

How Hybrid Cloud Strategies Can Help Modern Businesses Succeed

As more businesses embrace digital transformation, many discover that they want a combination of on-premises and cloud computing strategies. Before you can choose a specific strategy that will serve your organization’s needs, it’s important to spend some time learning about the pros and cons of on-premises and cloud environment solutions. You might decide that it makes more sense to choose hybrid cloud strategies as the approach that offers the best of both technologies.

Managing the Cost and Complexity of Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure

More enterprises are striving to become data-driven so they deliver greater value to their customers, shareholders, employees and society at large. But many are still struggling with data infrastructure. To reap the benefits, learn how companies are solving key challenges, from managing the rapid growth of data to ensuring security and compliance, in this discussion with Dan McConnell, SVP of product management, Enterprise Infrastructure.

Lenses 5.1 - A 1st class ticket to be event-driven in AWS

Hello again. We strive to improve the productivity of developers building event-driven applications on the technology choices that best fit your organization. AWS continues to be a real powerhorse for our customers. Not just for running the workloads, but in supporting them with their native services: MSK Kafka, MSK Connect and now increasingly Glue Schema Registry. This is bringing a strong alternative to Confluent and their Kafka infrastructure offerings.