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Microservice Observability with Kong Mesh

Microservice Observability with Kong Mesh Brought to you by @KongInc Senior Solutions Engineer Ahmed Koshok. In this video, Ahmed Koshok demonstrates how Kong Mesh enables you to monitor and troubleshoot your microservices in real-time. Kong Mesh is a service mesh built on top of the Envoy proxy that provides advanced observability features for microservices. With Kong Mesh, you can collect telemetry data, trace requests across multiple services, and visualize service dependencies.

API Discovery and Consumption with Kong Enterprise

API Discovery and Consumption with Kong Enterprise Brought to you by @KongInc Senior Solutions Engineer Ahmed Koshok. Discover how Kong Enterprise provides a consistent approach and experience for API publishing and consumption. In this video, Ahmed Koshok demonstrates how developers can easily browse, test, and deploy services through the API catalog, plus a shares a tutorial on how developers can create your own credentials and access the services you need in a self-service manner.

Zero-trust security with Kong Mesh

Zero-trust security with Kong Mesh Brought to you by @KongInc Senior Solutions Engineer Ahmed Koshok. In this video, Ahmed explains the core concepts of zero-trust security and demonstrates how Kong Mesh enables you to implement zero-trust security for your microservices. Kong Mesh is a service mesh built on top of the Envoy proxy that provides secure communication between microservices. With Kong Mesh, you can encrypt traffic between services, implement fine-grained access controls, and enforce security policies at the network layer.

How to Build an API With Python Flask

Python Flask is a popular framework for building web applications and APIs in Python. It provides developers with a quick and easy way to create RESTful APIs that can be used by other software applications. Flask is lightweight and requires minimal setup, making it a great choice for building small to medium-sized APIs. This makes Flask an ideal choice for developers looking to build robust and scalable APIs in Python. This example will review how to create a simple rest API Flask tutorial.

CIAM Beyond Access Management - Is Your CIAM Program There Yet?

How mature is your CIAM program today, and how do you aspire to evolve it? We talk with many existing and prospective CIAM customers and have found a fairly rapid evolution in maturity over the last year. In fact, we’ve developed the WSO2 CIAM Maturity Model to discuss the various levels of maturity we see across the market. So what level do you think your organization is at currently, and how can you strive for an optimized level of maturity?

Evolving API Management Requirements of Modern Enterprises

The ability to rapidly assemble and reassemble APIs and microservices has become a competitive differentiator across all industries — allowing organizations to pivot business models and deliver amazing customer experiences at speed and scale. Innovative organizations are pushing to become agile and transforming by adopting cloud native technologies that allow them to build more resilient software quickly that easily scales.

Beginner's Guide to Elasticsearch API: Indexing and Searching Data

Elasticsearch is a JSON-based database leaning heavily towards the unstructured types within the databases available out there. ( Postgres and MySQL are purely structured, while NoSQL is entirely unstructured). It interacts through restful APIs and provides a central unit system combining several datasets arising out of logs, metrics, and application trace data. A quick comparison with relational database management systems (RDBMS) will tell us their similarities.

Automating API Creation with Kong Enterprise

Automating API Creation with Kong Enterprise Brought to you by @KongInc Senior Solutions Engineer Ahmed Koshok. In this video, Ahmed demonstrates how to maintain a stable environment while implementing automation using Kong Enterprise. He discusses the necessary guard rails and policies required to ensure an API is properly documented and that policies are injected, plus the importance of testing an API in Insomnia.REST to verify its end points.

Benefits of Event-Driven Architecture in Business Systems

In day-to-day life, everything is driven by events. If the phone rings, you pick it up. If the timer on the oven pings, you switch it off. These are all examples of event-driven reactions, where the action is based on the conditions surrounding it. How does this relate to business IT systems? To begin to understand this, it helps to think of your company as a collection of events. Some of these events occur over and over, such as customer purchases or CRM data entry.

Building a RESTful API with Rails

When it comes to building an API, Rails is an extremely popular programming language choice to build powerful RESTful APIs. In this tutorial, we will build a simple REST API using Rails. The Rails REST API endpoint will allow users to retrieve a credit score rating. Of course, we won’t be linking up to any backend systems to pull a credit score but will instead use a random number generator to generate the score and return it to the user.