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Make an internet connected t-shirt with LEDs that respond to realtime data In summary: We will make a wearable, flexible LED array which will change colour in realtime as users draw on an app. It uses the Ably MQTT broker and the Ably Javascript SDK along with addressible RGB LEDs and an Adafruit wifi enabled microprocessor. We change the colour of individual LEDs sewn on the t-shirt, by sending realtime updates data with Ably's messaging platform to an Arduino via MQTT.

Kong Mesh is a service mesh that is based on Kuma, an open-source, CNCF project and supports every environment, including Kubernetes and virtual machines. In this service mesh demo, we will show you how easy it is to get started (in Kubernetes) – how to install a control plane, deploy a demo application, enable basic traffic policies, and briefly touch on observability.

In this new series from Sauce Labs, Marcus Merrell addresses ten things he wishes CIOs and CTOs understood about testing. In episode nine, Marcus discusses testing after code is shipped to production. Come along on this ten-episode journey to learn some best practices while Marcus dispels some myths about the testing space.

In this Kongcast episode, Grant McKeen and Jonathan White from IntegrationWorks, chat with us about how open banking and BIAN (Banking Industry Architecture Network) work with Kong Gateway to create simplicity from complexity in the banking and financial services industry.

Building an API is just the first step. You also need to deploy that API and help your customers onboard to drive API consumption. Design APIs in Insomnia, generate configurations for Kong Gateway and publish REST, GraphQL, and gRPC services to the Kong Dev Portal to enable your audience.

We don’t build our own ticket tracking systems or email clients, so why do we expect every person who joins a team to build their own collection of snippets for interacting with internal systems? These systems are usually not well documented, and the only way to learn how to use them is by asking someone or reading source code. Let’s learn how to use Insomnia Projects with our new collaboration features to provide a prebuilt collection of sample requests, plus documentation about the purpose of each endpoint so that your new team members can be productive on day one.

Software is the lifeblood of every business. To satisfy customers' increasing expectations and to stay ahead of the competition, businesses need to continually improve and enhance their software offerings. The need for increased speed is understood; however, customers have zero tolerance for decreased software quality.

@Viktor Gamov is a Principal Developer Advocate at Kong, a cloud connectivity company.

In this Kongcast episode, Jason Yee, director of advocacy at Gremlin, explains the concept of chaos engineering, why even the best engineers can’t control everything and tools and tactics to help build app resiliency.