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Kong Mesh & Kuma 2.2 Released with Global Rate Limiting, OpenTelemetry, and More

We’re excited to announce the release of Kong Mesh and Kuma 2.2. This new minor release adds some long-awaited enterprise features, more incremental improvements to our UI and policies, and many more minor features and bug fixes. In order to take advantage of the latest and greatest in service mesh, we strongly suggest upgrading to Kong Mesh 2.2. Upgrading is easy through kumactl or Helm.

Should You Automate It? Knowing When to Build Test Automation and When to Keep It Manual

Agile teams must adapt to changing requirements and continuously ship new features. But, while automated tests are faster, they take time to set up and still need ongoing maintenance. So, how do you decide when to invest time and energy in test automation and when to use manual tests? Striking the right balance is critical to success.

Cybersecurity Risks of Direct Database Connectors

Direct database connectors or connections act as a middleperson between an app and a database, allowing the app to read, write, and alter data in the database without an API or other intermediary layer. While these connectors might be simpler to set up than creating and automating an API, making them valuable for database management, they pose several cybersecurity risks that could put your business at risk. Below, learn about these threats and how to mitigate them with an API management platform.

Can Your Test Management Tool Support an Agile Transition?

Many organizations are experiencing a digital transformation to keep pace with the rapidly changing technology landscape and the increasing demand for faster time-to-market. By embracing Agile principles, like collaboration, iterative development, and continuous feedback, you can respond more quickly to changing requirements and market conditions. But these transitions don’t happen overnight.

Stop Wasting Your Engineers' Time and Start Improving Your System Stability with Kuma

At first glance, that does not make sense, right? The title suggests you should invest your DevOps/Platform team’s time in introducing a new product that most likely will: Through this article, we’ll show you that even though those initial concerns are justified, the overall benefits that can be realized by adopting a service mesh can outweigh any initial effort and investments.

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.

Exposing Services with the Kubernetes Gateway API

The Gateway API is the next generation of the Ingress API, one of the most widely used resources across Kubernetes. We will explore the rich set of features provided by this API and deep dive into a demo-oriented talk where we will learn how to expose applications outside the cluster boundaries. We will leverage the Kong Gateway Operator to deploy the controlplane (Kong Ingress Controller) and dataplane (Kong), then, with the help of the Gateway API, expose services outside the cluster boundaries and perform traffic splitting and load balancing based on different rules.

Enabling API Monetization with Moesif

As an API provider, you probably picture bringing in some type of revenue as part of your API business model. When you first begin the journey of monetizing your API product, you’ll likely find that the complexities of monetization run deep. Much of the time, solving this problem extends beyond the capabilities of a typical API gateway or API management platform.