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Imagine a world where you could deploy your API gateways across any cloud, enforce enterprise-grade policies, and meet compliance standards all within a single Terraform apply. Most teams think about infrastructure as code only in terms of spinning up VMs, networking components, databases, or maybe a Kubernetes cluster. But what if your API platform was just as programmable? With Kong’s Konnect platform and its support for Terraform, that reality is here today!

Authentication is a critical element of any web application. The Ruby on Rails ecosystem has no shortage of solutions for this topic, as no authentication layer has been backed into the framework yet. Devise is a crowd favorite. Although it has ended up as the de-facto standard and sports many built-in features and great plugins (such as integrations with NoSQL databases, encryption, roles, and UID support), it works as a separate entity from your application.

Webpack has long been the dominant player in the JavaScript web bundler landscape. Over time, many competitors have gradually entered the arena, each offering unique features and improved performance. Among these newcomers, Rspack stands out with its innovative approach to web application bundling. Leveraging a Rust core, it provides high-speed, multithreaded code splitting.

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is rapidly becoming the connective tissue for agentic AI systems and IDE tooling. Whether you’re building a dev tool that integrates with LLMs or enabling a context-aware API backend, standing up an MCP server is a rite of passage. But MCP is still in its early days and there are some sharp edges. Here are four practical shortcuts to fast-track your MCP server development so you can skip the boilerplate and get to the good stuff: intelligent tooling.

How does your Shopware 6 store’s PHP backend performance compare to other operators of Shopware in general? To answer this question, we have aggregated and anonymized performance data from over 150 Shopware 6 stores over the last quarter and computed benchmark numbers to compare to for the most important page types: Product details, Category, Search, and Homepage.

APIs are the lifeblood of disruption. . . when leveraged correctly. The best, most disruptive businesses are able to harness API growth as a strategic opportunity. But how? With an API platform that drives innovation, faster delivery, and top-tier customer experiences alongside a top-notch developer experience. To that end, the Kong Konnect team has been busy executing against these goals in the new year.

Sometimes teams avoid introducing more tests (particularly UI tests) because they fear slowing down their CI pipeline. Should you have to sacrifice software quality for the sake of fast cycle times? Absolutely not. So, how can you introduce more tests without slowing down your CI pipeline? The answer: employ test sharding. In this post, we’ll dive into what test sharding is and why you should consider it.

Rails 8 shipped with a bold premise: “No PaaS Required.” As cloud platforms have grown more costly, Ruby on Rails has shifted to reducing external infrastructure dependencies so that developers can deploy and run applications with fewer ever service dependencies. Traditionally, deploying a Rails app to the internet has meant provisioning a database server (e.g., PostgreSQL) and additional services like Redis for caching, background jobs, or WebSockets.

Managing multiple apps with different store accounts just got easier. Bitrise Release Management helps developers distribute apps efficiently, whether delivering internal builds or publishing to the App Store or Google Play. It’s built to support teams at scale, with teams relying on it to release hundreds of apps across different platforms and accounts.