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July 2022

Kong Builders - July 22 - Running Kong Gateway on Red Hat Open Shift

In this week's episode, Kat Morgan walks through Kong Gateway on #Redhat #OpenShift with special guest Casey Wylie, Principal Solutions Engineer from Red Hat! Kong Builders is a livestream series that takes our developer-focused toolsets and puts them on display in the best venue possible – building applications and connecting workloads.

Kong Gateway: Choose your Adventure - A byte-sized guide to selecting the best Kong features for you

Tech Talks by Kong are a new webinar series dedicated to our technical developer audience featuring open-source products and topics relevant to you with extended live demos. About this Tech talk: Kong’s Gateway offering wraps several frontend and backend services which include an Admin API and GUI, Developer Portal API and GUI, as well as Ingress Controllers, data plane proxies, and various cache and database backend services. Join Kat Morgan, Field Engineer and Senior Developer Advocate, to determine which components are right for you and your use case.

Using OpenAPI to automatically configure the Kong Gateway

For our July User Call, join Sven Walther, Principal Solutions Engineer EMEA, to talk about “Using OpenAPI to automatically configure the Kong Gateway”. We are going to automate the creation of Kong services, routes and plugin configurations only based on an OpenAPI file. The tools we will use next to Kong itself are Insomnia/inso-cli, decK and the Kong Ingress Controller.

Simplifying Production-Scale API Management With Kong Konnect

When we first launched Kong Konnect Cloud last year, we provided developers and API owners a powerful way to secure and manage their API products powered by the world’s fastest API gateway. Users flocked to Konnect to reduce their operational costs by using our hosted runtime manager, service catalog, developer portal and analytics platform.

Managing Multiple Environments with Konnect and Runtime Groups

We’ve heard it called a million and one different things. Sometimes it’s “selective synchronization”, sometimes it’s called “environments”. What is clear though, is that there’s a real need to be able to manage multiple sets of configuration for Kong Gateway through a single interface. Today, we’re happy to announce Runtime Groups for Kong Konnect. Runtime Groups allow you to manage your configurations independently.

The Power of Event-Driven Architecture | Chris Parlette | TriggerMesh | Kongcast Episode 19

In this episode of Kongcast, Kaitlyn talks with Chris Parlette, Senior Solutions Architect at TriggerMesh about the evolution of microservices and event-driven architecture, who can benefit most from organizational future-proofing and modernization, and TriggerMesh as an event-driven integration platform.

6 Best Practices for Productizing APIs

Web APIs are an integral piece of the development landscape today. According to a 2021 survey, top industries such as Digital Banking, Retail, and Financial services have experienced significant year-on-year API traffic growth with 70%, 51% and 50% increases since February 2021, respectively. The economic impact of APIs is significant and vast. Recent funding rounds of API-focused companies have seen millions of dollars go to companies precisely because APIs appeal to developers.

What is the API Economy?

Today’s digital economy is shifting toward dependence on microservices — self-contained and reusable software components — working in coordination to compose the applications we use. Communication between microservices happens through the API (or application programming interface). Using APIs (which are like pieces of software that let applications communicate with each other) is how microservices expose their functionalities and allow access to their services and their data.

How to rate limit your requests per consumer groups

One of the most common use cases our customers are using Kong for is rate limiting. There are a few common reasons for doing this: For all those and more, we’re able to easily add this functionality with Kong’s rate limit advanced plugin. The plugin can be applied at different levels such as service, route, specific consumer, or even in a global scope.

Guide to Open Banking and Embedded Finance

Open banking initiatives have taken flight in many economies across the globe. Predicated on the open access of banking data for the overall benefit of customer choice, open banking comes with many challenges — security not the least of them. Giving customers the ability to easily switch providers of financial products goes a long way towards providing a more open and inclusive landscape of products for customers to choose from, and delivering better customer experiences.