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Why Calculate the Cost of APIs and How To Get Started

The use of application programming interfaces (APIs) is exploding across nearly every industry, and for a good reason. What was once primarily found only in technical domains is now becoming a key indicator of business growth. Whether your goal is to connect internal systems, personalize offers, or create innovative products, APIs are leading the way. The benefits are clear — but at what cost? Calculate The Cost Of Developing APIs From Scratch Calculate yours!

Next-Level API Security | Giora Engel | Neosec | Kongcast Episode 17

In this episode of Kongcast Kaitlyn talks with Giora Engel, Co-Founder and CEO from Neosec, about modern API threads, protecting APIs and their partnership with Kong. Hosted by Viktor Gamov and Kaitlyn Barnard, we interview software developers and technology leaders at the top of their game every other week. We’ll also give you the tools, tactics and strategies you need to take your distributed architectures to the next level. Kongcast goes beyond the buzzwords and dissects real-life applications and success stories so that you can tackle your biggest connectivity challenges.

Kong Insomnia 2022.4: Now With Official GitLab Support

Git Sync lets you collaborate with your team on Design Documents that you create in Kong Insomnia. In the last release, we updated the way that Git Sync works for GitHub. We now leverage the OpenID Connect protocol and OAuth2 to make it easier for you to set up Git Sync. Today, we’re excited to announce that we’re bringing that same ease of setup to GitLab repositories as well!

Kong Ingress Controller 2.4: Weighted Load Balancing, Support for TCP, UDP and HTTP Routes

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Kong Ingress Controller (KIC) 2.4! Earlier this year, we launched KIC 2.2 with initial support for Kubernetes Gateway API. In this release, we’re adding weighted load balancing and support for TCP and UDP routes, as well as some much needed quality-of-life features for our customers.

Connecting Apigee to GKE using headless services and Cloud DNS

We’ve recently supported an organization who wanted to expose its Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) backend behind Apigee X. A quite common architecture, which most of the users delivering modern web applications on Google Cloud tend to build upon. In this scenario, Google’s API gateway, Apigee, receives requests and performs L7 routing, redirecting you to the correct backend application, running as one or more pods on GKE.

End-to-End API Monetization with Tyk, Stripe, and Moesif

Many API developers and companies struggle to find ways to easily set up systems to monetize their APIs. Some are simple but not customizable, some are complex and require massive engineering effort to actually get it all running. To make things easier, Moesif created a feature a few months ago called Billing Meters which gives massive customizability but with a minimal amount of code and engineering effort.

CIAM Responsible Solutions for Creating Positive Consumer Experiences - CIAM Trend Chat NA 2022

Consumers see the world as all digital with no divide. As a result, whether those consumers are young, old, digitally savvy, or technophobes; organizations are going to have to find a way to ‘deliver better customer interactions’ than their competitors if they are to acquire and retain them. Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) can be defined as “A customer-focused IAM discipline that facilitates leveraging identity data with business data to catalyze business growth”.

Artificial Intelligence in Test Automation

When you hear “Artificial Intelligence,” (AI) what do you think of? You might picture advanced humanoid robots or futuristic technology from sci-fi movies. But as it turns out, this “futuristic” technology is already integrated into our lives. It exists in our phones, televisions, and homes to make everyday tasks simpler. When it comes to software testing, AI can be implemented into your testing initiatives to increase efficiency.