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We are thrilled to announce the general availability of Kong Gateway 2.0. With this release the technology will become more platform-agnostic to deploy it across on-premises and the cloud (Hybrid mode), and it also becomes more development language agnostic.

In this call API Fortress talked about mocking APIs with Kong and API Fortress. You might want to mock APIs to build tests against them before the services are ready, to save money during service development, or to keep your development environments isolated. Learn how API Fortress uses Kong in their API mocking technology. Plus, see a demo.

We announced the latest release of Kong for Kubernetes! Features include encrypted credentials, mutual authentication using TLS, native gRPC routing, performance improvements among other things. With this release, Kong for K8s now has 100% coverage of Kong Gateway’s administrative API functions. This means that all the features of the Kong Gateway can now be used natively on Kong for K8s through Kubernetes resources.

Insomnia is an open source GraphQL and REST client aimed at making testing and debugging APIs easier. In October, we announced that we welcomed Insomnia to the team at Kong as the next step in our journey to build the service control platform for the future.

Most large enterprises have a lot of legacy developed over the years, but they need to embrace microservices quickly to beat the competition. The right approach for these large enterprise is not a big-bang strategy but rather an incremental strategy. In this Kong Summit 2019 session, Infosys AVP and Head of Architecture, Rajib Deb will explain how leveraging an API gateway and “servicifying” the legacy can help expedite the process for organizations adopting microservices architectural patterns.

In the first wave of DevOps, practitioners embraced change to incorporate development into design and build processes. To successfully build the next generation of software, practitioners will need to catch the second wave of DevOps to focus on controlling and fine-tuning evolving architectures. Honeycomb CEO, Charity Majors, discusses how to ensure buildability, empower developers, and make a truly observable architecture that’s primed for success.

At Kong Summit, we announced the Alpha release of Kong Gateway 2.0. 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.

We’re on the cusp of a hyper-connected world where more than a trillion devices will be connected in order to power the driverless cars and robotic pharmacists of our future.

During his talk, Chad outlined how almost everything we've seen in the evolution of software and systems points to one, fundamental truth: small things are more manageable than big things. Small iterations are better iterations. Small methods are better methods. Small teams are better teams. He discussed examples from sociology, psychology, and biology that explored how we can think small to build systems and organizations that can outlive us.

In this presentation, Chris Richardson describes the essential characteristics of the microservice architecture. You will learn about the benefits and drawbacks of the microservice architecture and when it makes sense to use it. Chris also covers how the microservice architecture is not a silver bullet.