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Lenses 5.1 - A 1st class ticket to be event-driven in AWS

Hello again. We strive to improve the productivity of developers building event-driven applications on the technology choices that best fit your organization. AWS continues to be a real powerhorse for our customers. Not just for running the workloads, but in supporting them with their native services: MSK Kafka, MSK Connect and now increasingly Glue Schema Registry. This is bringing a strong alternative to Confluent and their Kafka infrastructure offerings.

Secret rotation for Kafka Connect connectors with AWS Secret Manager

With version 5.1, Lenses is now offering enterprise support for our popular open-source Secret Provider to customers. In this blog, we’ll explain how secrets for Kafka Connect connectors can be safely protected using Secret Managers and walk you through configuring the Lenses S3 Sink Connector with the Lenses Secret Provider plugin and AWS Secret Manager.

API Discovery and Consumption with Kong Enterprise

API Discovery and Consumption with Kong Enterprise Brought to you by @KongInc Senior Solutions Engineer Ahmed Koshok. Discover how Kong Enterprise provides a consistent approach and experience for API publishing and consumption. In this video, Ahmed Koshok demonstrates how developers can easily browse, test, and deploy services through the API catalog, plus a shares a tutorial on how developers can create your own credentials and access the services you need in a self-service manner.

Zero-trust security with Kong Mesh

Zero-trust security with Kong Mesh Brought to you by @KongInc Senior Solutions Engineer Ahmed Koshok. In this video, Ahmed explains the core concepts of zero-trust security and demonstrates how Kong Mesh enables you to implement zero-trust security for your microservices. Kong Mesh is a service mesh built on top of the Envoy proxy that provides secure communication between microservices. With Kong Mesh, you can encrypt traffic between services, implement fine-grained access controls, and enforce security policies at the network layer.

How to Build an API With Python Flask

Python Flask is a popular framework for building web applications and APIs in Python. It provides developers with a quick and easy way to create RESTful APIs that can be used by other software applications. Flask is lightweight and requires minimal setup, making it a great choice for building small to medium-sized APIs. This makes Flask an ideal choice for developers looking to build robust and scalable APIs in Python. This example will review how to create a simple rest API Flask tutorial.

Solving key challenges in the ML lifecycle with Unravel and Databricks Model Serving

Machine learning (ML) enables organizations to extract more value from their data than ever before. Companies who successfully deploy ML models into production are able to leverage that data value at a faster pace than ever before. But deploying ML models requires a number of key steps, each fraught with challenges.

Process Automation Types, Explained

Are you confused about the multiple types of business process automation? You’re not alone. Automation tool vendors seem to have created more flavors than a contestant on Top Chef. Let’s get to the bottom of the differences between the various types of process automation and find out what they can and can’t do, in plain terms. Here’s a starting hint: Get ready for synonyms. In some cases, different analyst firms and tool vendors use different terms for the same ideas.

Writing your back end in Dart

In this blog post, we will explore the process of building a back end using only Dart. With the numerous options available for achieving this, it’s normal to feel overwhelmed or unsure of where to begin. Thus, this post is primarily directed at Flutter developers who are considering Dart for their back end for its various benefits, which we will discuss later on.