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GraphQL vs REST: Key Similarities and Differences Explained

Feb 28, 2025 By Kong In Kong
Choosing the right API architecture is crucial for building efficient and scalable applications and the two prominent contenders in this arena are GraphQL and REST, each with its unique set of characteristics and benefits. Understanding the similarities and differences between these two approaches can help teams make informed decisions when designing APIs. This article aims to provide a comprehensive comparison of GraphQL and REST, highlighting their key features, advantages, and use cases.
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Agentic AI Needs an API Backbone: Cultivating Discipline & Governance for Scalable Success

Feb 27, 2025 By Kong In Kong
For organizations seeking to leverage agentic AI, the journey begins with a steadfast commitment to discipline and governance. This talk underscores that the true foundation of success in agentic AI adoption is a culture that values structured API capabilities and a rigorous approach to digital integration. By fostering disciplined practices and robust governance frameworks, businesses can establish the resilient API foundations necessary for automating complex processes and scaling AI-driven initiatives.
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Federated API Management: Balancing Speed and Control

Feb 26, 2025 By Ash Osborne In Kong
As the need for speed in business can seemingly be at odds with the need for control, organizations developing APIs today face a critical challenge: how can you empower developers to build and deploy APIs quickly while maintaining enterprise-wide governance and security? More traditional API deployment approaches are often to blame for why API initiatives fail to deliver the promised benefits as complexity and scale increase.
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Transforming DevOps for Scientific Innovation:Materials Project's Cloud-Native Journey to 500K Users

Feb 20, 2025 By Kong In Kong
The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) stands at the forefront of scientific discovery, driving innovations across energy, physics, biology, and computational research. The project harnesses the power of supercomputing and state-of-the-art methods to provide open web-based access to computed information on known and predicted materials..
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Announcing Kong GCP Cloud Gateways (Beta)

Feb 18, 2025 By Michael Field In Kong
When speaking with platform teams who are responsible for setting up their organizations’ API platforms, we often hear: "We really want to offload the infra side of this. We don’t want our engineers spinning up their own locally hosted infrastructure or asking other infrastructure teams to do this.
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How to Track Service Level Objectives with Kong and OpenTelemetry

Feb 6, 2025 By Sachin Ghumbre In Kong
In this blog post, we will explore how organizations can leverage Kong and OpenTelemetry to establish and monitor Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and manage error budgets more effectively. By tracking performance metrics and error rates against predefined thresholds, teams can prioritize their work based on the impact on user experience and business objectives. This approach helps optimize the balance between innovation and reliability.
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Building and Running Secure APIs with Kong and Traceable

Feb 6, 2025 By Ahmed Koshok In Kong
Cloud native application development relies heavily on APIs. APIs have proven themselves as a scalable and efficient way to capture, deploy, and scale functionality. Consequently, APIs became a target for malicious actors to misuse. Therefore, building quality APIs with adequate security controls is essential. Kong is the world’s most popular API gateway. Kong Konnect is a unified API platform.
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