We announced the Kong Premium Technology Partner Program at API Summit 2024, and Confluent was one of the first in the program. This initial development was all about ensuring that the relationship between Kong and Confluent — from a business and product perspective — fully represented our joint belief that the world of data streaming and the world of APIs are converging.

Today's consumers are more health-conscious than ever, leading many to turn to mobile apps to manage their health and well-being on the go. According to Insider Intelligence, over two-thirds of Americans have used a health-related app in the last year. As a result of this shift in behaviour, healthcare providers now have a unique opportunity to reach out to new audiences and form stronger relationships with their customers.

Is your program throwing a fit but those error messages are lost somewhere in the avalanche of print statements? Let's fix that! Enter stderr - Python's built-in solution for separating your normal program output from your "everything is on fire" messages. Think of your Python program as having two voices: stdout (its inside voice) and stderr (its "EVERYONE PANIC" voice).

Behind every smooth home sale, there’s the MLS (Multiple Listing Service) quietly doing the heavy lifting. This system is the backbone of real estate, a vast network that keeps agents connected, properties visible, and listings accurate. It’s what makes it possible for buyers to see up-to-date options and sellers to reach the right market. Today, nearly 80% of real estate firms are integrating MLS into their digital workflows alongside tools like e-signatures and electronic contracts.

Digital transformation is accelerating rapidly, yet many businesses are still wondering how to proceed. For most, it will require a shift in thinking and operational activities. Succeeding in this transformation will require you to make critical choices surrounding more efficient workflows, data security, and profitability. One of the four pillars of digital transformation is IT uplift, which focuses on improving the IT infrastructure.

With the world revolutionizing at a fast pace, digital wallets have become the new banking norm, allowing customers to do things on the go. Online transactions have already become an integral part of our lives, rather becoming an an essential aspect, particularly with the acceleration of digital transformation services. Of course, there are many options for making payments online, including digital wallets, bitcoin, online banks, and credit cards.

In recent years, the serverless paradigm has become known as a transformative approach to application development, allowing us to focus more on writing code and less on managing infrastructure. Laravel Vapor, a serverless deployment platform for Laravel applications, brings the power of the Laravel framework into the world of serverless architecture.

When was the last time you used a chat service and noticed messages arriving out of order? It’s likely that you can’t think of one. Getting messages to arrive in the right order is more or less job number one of a chat service. Sounds simple. But scale this to millions of users across a global network and it becomes a complex distributed computing problem. Even at smaller scales, message ordering isn’t guaranteed once you go beyond a simple, direct connection between two users.

In Kong Gateway 2.0, we released Hybrid Mode, also known as Control Plane/Data Plane separation. With it, our customers could efficiently and securely deploy clusters of Kong Gateway Dataplanes on their on-prem, private, and public clouds in any combination they wanted, and they could control the entire cluster from a single point, the Control Plane. Hybrid Mode became instantly popular with all our customers with large and varied deployments, due to the increased flexibility and ease of management.

In today's hyperconnected world, where negative reviews on social media can wreak havoc on a company’s reputation, delivering an exceptional customer experience isn't just a luxury—it's a business imperative. Companies are locked in a fierce battle for customers that is primarily based on their ability to deliver outstanding customer experiences (CX). According to research by The Conference Board, 65% of CEOs globally prioritize investing in strategies to improve CX.