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Going into 2024, API management has become a critical aspect of modern-day business operations. A good API management tool can help you streamline the process of designing, deploying, securing, and monitoring all your APIs.

The latest release of Kong Mesh (version 2.5) brings many new features that push the envelope and make Kong Mesh the logical choice of a service mesh to meet your objectives. In this blog, we'll break down these new features and provide tailored use cases to illustrate how Kong Mesh 2.5 can elevate your service mesh experience. We'll focus on three main categories: flexibility, resiliency, and security.

Private APIs vs. internal APIs – at first glance, they might seem synonymous, given their non-public nature. However, delving deeper reveals unique characteristics and purposes for each. As with any technical concept, a clear understanding is key to harnessing its full potential. To help navigate this intricate landscape, this article aims to demystify these terms, shedding light on their similarities and, more importantly, their differences.

GraphQL is a query language and runtime for APIs, developed by Facebook in 2012 and later open-sourced in 2015. And it has changed the way we fetch data from our server. Typically, most front-end clients – like React, Angular, Vue, or mobile apps like iOS and Android – use REST APIs to fetch data from the server. REST APIs require more HTTP calls than GraphQL, which leads to over and underfetching.

In token-based architecture, tokens represent the client’s entitlement to access protected resources. Access tokens (or bearer tokens as they're commonly known) are issued by authorization servers after successful user authentication. The tokens are passed as credentials in the request to the target APIs which inform the API that the bearer of the token is authorized to access the API and perform certain actions.

APIs (application programming interfaces) are increasingly acting as the “missing link” to help organizations integrate all their systems, applications, and databases. So how can you take advantage of API integrations for yourself? The answer is API-led connectivity. API-led connectivity is a systematic approach that uses APIs to seamlessly integrate diverse technologies within an organization, enabling efficient data and application access while fostering agility and innovation.