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Building a Software Development Strategy(2025): From Planning to Execution

If you’re leading a product team, working on Software Development for Startups, or scaling an enterprise IT roadmap in 2025, you’ve probably felt it. The pressure to move fast, stay secure, and deliver innovation without blowing your budget is very real. But here’s the catch: you’re not just shipping late without a strategy. You’re risking technical debt, security gaps, and missed market opportunities.

Kong Plugins 101 | API Governance, Security & Rate Limiting Explained

Welcome to Kong Plugins 101 – your introduction to applying governance, security, and control to every API call using Kong Konnect. In this session, we cover: What Kong plugins are and how they work Applying authentication, authorization, throttling, and rate limiting Securing services with advanced governance rules Real-world demo: setting a 5 calls per minute rate limit on an HTTPBin service route How plugins can be applied at different levels – global, service, route, or consumer.

MCP Tutorial: Build a Secure REST API & Dashboard in 5 Minutes | DreamFactory + Claude

In this 5-minute demo, we use DreamFactory’s MCP server with Claude Code and Claude Desktop to: This isn’t AI writing SQL. This is AI orchestrating secure APIs—fast, safe, and auditable. DreamFactory MCP is the secure API gateway that turns databases into AI-ready endpoints—with RBAC, parameterization, and audit logging built-in.

PHP Queuing With ZendHQ & JobQueue

The ZendHQ JobQueue is a language-agnostic solution for PHP queuing and job automation. Unlike traditional CRON setups, it centralizes job management and eliminates the need to dig through system logs. With support for deferred, recurring, and scheduled jobs, you can streamline tasks like generating invoices asynchronously. Get the full details in this webinar clip!

Kong Named Across Eight Categories in 2025 Gartner Hype Cycle Reports

Third-party recognition is always a significant milestone, but being included across multiple categories by a leading research firm like Gartner? That's definitely worth celebrating. Kong has been featured in eight different categories across six Gartner hype cycles for 2025*— our most comprehensive inclusion to date. This recognition spans the entire gamut of API platform capabilities: from API observability to vertical-specific healthcare solutions.

API Management as a Central Security Hub

While many organizations mistakenly believe a single tool can solve all their API security woes, the truth is far more complex. This blog post will dismantle the myth of the "silver bullet" and demonstrate how a comprehensive, defense-in-depth strategy, centered around a robust API management platform, is essential for truly securing your API ecosystem.

Event Schema Evolution for API Gateways

Managing event schema evolution is a key challenge for API gateways, especially in systems relying on real-time data and microservices. Schema evolution ensures that updates to data structures remain compatible with existing integrations, preventing issues like service outages or data corruption. The article explores methods to handle schema changes effectively and highlights DreamFactory’s automated solution.

Q&A: How Bitrise helps Apadmi drive loyalty, scale, and mobile success for its clients

As consumer expectations rise, loyalty is becoming a top priority. In fact 67% of brands plan to significantly increase investment in strengthening consumer loyalty over the next year, according to a recent report by Apadmi, Europe’s leading digital product consultancy and longstanding Bitrise customer.