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The POST method is a crucial part of the HTTP protocol that allows data submission from clients to servers. Unlike other methods like GET, POST sends data in the request body, making it ideal for secure and confidential information. By understanding the POST method, you can enable powerful functionalities such as form submissions, resource creation, and API operations. One of the distinguishing features of the POST method is its ability to handle sensitive and confidential data.

Elasticsearch Mapping is a process of defining the schema or structure of the data that is going to be indexed and searched. Mapping determines how Elasticsearch will interpret and handle the data being indexed, including the field names, data types, and how they are analyzed and indexed for search. Mapping in Elasticsearch is essential for ensuring that the data is indexed and searched accurately and efficiently.

In this guide, Viktor Gamov (Principle Developer Advocate at Kong) will dive into the power of Kong Konnect, the SaaS managed control plane for Kong Gateway designed for seamless API management. We’ll explore how to use Kong Konnect to configure external services, enable application registration, configure Dev Portal, use credentials to manage services access, and replicate configurations across different environments with just a few clicks. Let’s get started!

As a developer supporting a growing business, you’ll likely spend a lot of time thinking about scaling. We live in a wonderful time to be solving scale problems. Computers are so fast and capable that many of the development decisions you make when writing backend systems won’t noticeably impact performance(until your app reaches an absolutely massive scale). If this weren’t the case, we’d all be writing web servers in C.

In our introduction to Absinthe, we covered the basics of Absinthe and GraphQL for an Elixir application. Now we'll dig deeper and see how we can customize Absinthe for larger-scale Elixir applications. Let's get going!