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Powering your APIs with Kong and AWS Lambda

Nov 25, 2020 By Kong In Kong
While the concept of serverless applications has grown over the past years there are plenty of instances where the serverless model doesn’t fit all needs. For those coming from on-premises or hybrid scenarios, moving to serverless might look like needing to move everything or building very differently than you have in the past. In this session we’ll demystify the central component of the serverless movement, AWS Lambda, a serverless compute service that changes how applications are built and managed, but only in some ways.
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Practical Implementation of Good Security Hygiene for Mobile Apps | Kong Summit 2020

Nov 24, 2020 By Kong In Kong
We all know that we shouldn’t store secrets in mobile apps, but what is the practical alternative? We all know that we should use certificate pinning for our APIs, but how can it be done simply and safely? This talk will describe a real project to explore some of the challenges of implementing good security practice in a large organization and discuss a third-party solution (Approov) which addresses both of the issues above in a relatively simple way using industry standards and working neatly with Kong.
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Kong Mesh 1.1 GA Released

Nov 24, 2020 By Marco Palladino In Kong

After having announced Kuma 1.0 GA with over 70+ new features and improvements (and Kuma 1.0.1 this week), we are finally happy to announce a new major version of Kong Mesh that includes all the latest Kuma features – and more – in a fully supported enterprise package. With Kong Mesh 1.1 we can now deploy the most advanced enterprise service mesh in production across every cloud and private datacenter, on both Kubernetes and virtual machines.

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Simplifying Canary Deployment | Ingenia | Kong Summit 2020

Nov 23, 2020 By Kong In Kong
Canary deployment is a helpful tool that allows companies to put in production multiple versions of its products to control flow and access based on different sets of rules, clients, amounts and operations. In this session, we will discuss best practices for canary deployment and share our experiences using Kong Enterprise — supported by Kuma capabilities — in achieving this.
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Kuma 1.0.1 Released

Nov 23, 2020 By Marco Palladino In Kong

We are happy to announce the release of Kuma 1.0.1 with a few improvements and fixes, and we suggest to upgrade to start using the greatest and latest. This is a minor update on top of Kuma 1.0 that shipped last week with over 70+ features and improvements. For a complete list of features and updates, take a look at the full changelog. Join us on our community channels to learn more about Kuma, including our official Slack chat.

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Journey to the Cloud: From On-Prem to Public Cloud With Kong | Tyler Technologies

Nov 20, 2020 By Kong In Kong
The team at Tyler Technologies has used Kong to help take the company’s applications from on-premise installations to multi-tenant cloud services. In this session, we’ll explore how Kong can help make this move without clients ever knowing it even happened, how we use Kong Brain to automatically generate OpenAPI documentation for our integrators and the AWS infrastructure choices we made to get a large, robust Kong instance running in AWS.
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Implement a Canary Release with Kong for Kubernetes and Consul

Nov 20, 2020 By Kong In Kong

From the Kong API Gateway perspective, using Consul as its Service Discovery infrastructure is one of the most well-known and common integration use cases. With this powerful combination more flexible and advanced routing policies can be implemented to address Canary Releases, A/B testings, Blue-Green deployments, etc. totally abstracted from the Gateway standpoint without having to deal with lookup procedures.

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Taking the Leap Seamlessly Transition Legacy Applications to Kubernetes

Nov 19, 2020 By Kong In Kong
For many organizations, moving legacy applications to modern cloud infrastructures holds great promise, such as reducing IT overhead and accelerating development times. However, in reality, these projects can be fraught with delays and service interruptions while burdening your team with transition tasks.
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Service Design Guidelines with OpenAPI and Kong - Part I

Nov 19, 2020 By Vikas Vijendra In Kong

We are in the midst of an explosion of APIs and microservices. For some, the first instinct of creating an API is to get down to building one. Some level of planning will help manage the quality of APIs when working within a team. In this series of blogs, we will be sharing some guidelines on service design while working on API projects with Kong. Let us start by focusing on how to go about designing APIs that end up as entities that the Kong API Gateway runtime understands.

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