It was an exciting journey in coming together with our community last week at Kong Summit 2019. I want to take a moment to appreciate the experience we shared, our major product announcements, and what all this means for the future of Kong and building software. Kong Summit was an amazing, energetic 48 hours that brought together more than 500 attendees from 28 countries, representing our open source users and enterprise customers, as well as numerous cloud native industry leaders.

Studies conducted on IT executives are great at revealing some of the key issues in the world of data analytics. In recent surveys, 71.8% of executives agreed that AI will have the greatest impact on their firms over the next decade and 54.4% of them signified that an inability to leverage data as an effective weapon against competitors is their greatest data threat¹. Based on this, it is clear that data and data analytics are key to an organization’s success.

Today we hear from Felix Perdana, engineering manager at Traveloka, on how the company uses the Apigee API management platform to become a one-stop travel and lifestyle platform in Southeast Asia and beyond. Traveloka uses APIs to grow and consolidate its inventories while bringing customers and partners together to book flights, vehicles, hotels, and vacation packages.

APIs (Application Program Interfaces) are a set of protocols, functions or commands used by programmers to develop software programs. What makes APIs important is that they allow the capabilities of one computer program to be used by another. APIs are the means for two different computer programs to communicate. Barriers to change are reduced and makes it easier for people to contribute to the success of an organization.

Conditional Breakpoints and their variants, Exception and Symbolic Breakpoints are powerful tools for advanced debugging, applicable to both iOS and Android. We’ll explore them in this article. In the first post of our How to Debug from Zero series we learnt the basics of breakpoints. At this point, you should know how to add a new breakpoint and how to use the “step over”, “step in” and “step out” commands.

Data is a powerful tool for enabling businesses to get the upper hand over their competition and for optimizing revenue streams. For data-driven companies to make right business decisions based on accurate insights, they need access to trusted data in a timely manner, no matter where the data is - in the cloud, on-premises or in both environments.

At last year’s Kong Summit, we announced our vision for the service control platform to serve as an intelligent information broker for the enterprise. Today, we’re proud to announce that we’ve taken the service control platform vision one step further to enable organizations worldwide to manage and optimize the entire service lifecycle.

Kong Gateway 2.0 takes all the work we put into creating Kong and builds on it to create a truly stable, battle-tested API gateway that is stable under extreme performance conditions and a diverse array of architectures and implementations. With this release, we are especially excited to address some of the most common requests from our community, as well as lay the foundation for continued growth and innovation within our open source platform. Read on below to check out the new capabilities.

Today we are excited to welcome Insomnia to the team at Kong! Insomnia has been on our radar at Kong for quite some time. I was first introduced to Insomnia and Greg in the early days of the project, and I am proud to have been one of the earliest supporters. From the first, I knew that Insomnia was solving a real problem for developers, and it has been amazing to see the community of contributors grow as more and more developers adopt Insomnia to make testing and debugging APIs easier.

Today we’re thrilled to announce a brand new product area for Kong – Kong Studio, an integrated design and test environment for Kong Enterprise customers. We are excited to make the leap in extending our service control platform to include pre-production use cases focused on improving the way that customers build and test their microservices and APIs.