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Kong Gateway 2.4 Now Generally Available!

Note to readers before we get started: you’ll see us referring to the “Kong Gateway” in this post. This is the product previously referred to as Kong Gateway Enterprise. In version 2.3, we released a free operating mode of Kong Gateway Enterprise, and given it no longer needs a paid “Enterprise” license, we now refer to this gateway as the Kong Gateway and disambiguate from the OSS-only Gateway as Kong Gateway (OSS).

APIs & Organizational Agility: Are You Getting the Benefits of API Adoption

Customer expectations are always changing. Businesses must learn to adapt or be left behind. The idea of business agility can be intimidating, but the right API can help you keep pace and adjust to changing business models. But to use one effectively, it may be beneficial to first understand what is meant by organizational agility and how APIs can enable your business to be more responsive to changing market conditions and embrace more streamlined ways of working.

How Organizations Add Value with APIs

It’s no secret that APIs are a valuable part of the modern tech stack. More than bits of middleware, APIs can tie your disjointed apps into one streamlined interface. You can add security and connectivity to legacy systems, and you can get creative with new features and services. APIs are essential to any digital transformation process. Sign up for our free 14 day hosted trial to learn how.

API design 101: Links to our most popular posts

APIs play a critical role in helping software connect and communicate, as well as making the lives of developers a little easier. Over the years we’ve published a number of posts to help developers design APIs to get the most from them. Below is a list of our most popular API design posts you can read now or bookmark for later.

How DueDil leverages Apigee API-first approach to deliver data insights at scale

As their name reflects, DueDil provides due diligence services ranging from customer-specific risk evaluations and selections to customer onboarding and real-time risk monitoring for leading financial services, high-growth tech and insurance companies. Founded in 2009, the company helps more than 3,000 enterprise users from over 400 clients to not only understand with whom they’re doing business, but to do so with increased efficiency and in compliance with regulatory requirements.

Scaling Service Mesh Across Clouds

In the traditional datacenter, distributed workloads simply existed across multiple datacenters. As businesses evolve their applications in the cloud native era, this degree of distribution scales as well. Workloads landing in multiple VPCs grow in commonality, and in many cases exist between cloud environments. In this Destination: Scale session, Cody De Arkland - Principal Technical Marketing Engineer, Service Mesh, Office of the CTO - shows how Kuma provides a method to connect these applications through its advanced multi-zone capabilities, and how this model enables global scale.