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What is the API Economy?

Today’s digital economy is shifting toward dependence on microservices — self-contained and reusable software components — working in coordination to compose the applications we use. Communication between microservices happens through the API (or application programming interface). Using APIs (which are like pieces of software that let applications communicate with each other) is how microservices expose their functionalities and allow access to their services and their data.

How to rate limit your requests per consumer groups

One of the most common use cases our customers are using Kong for is rate limiting. There are a few common reasons for doing this: For all those and more, we’re able to easily add this functionality with Kong’s rate limit advanced plugin. The plugin can be applied at different levels such as service, route, specific consumer, or even in a global scope.

Guide to Open Banking and Embedded Finance

Open banking initiatives have taken flight in many economies across the globe. Predicated on the open access of banking data for the overall benefit of customer choice, open banking comes with many challenges — security not the least of them. Giving customers the ability to easily switch providers of financial products goes a long way towards providing a more open and inclusive landscape of products for customers to choose from, and delivering better customer experiences.

Kong Gateway Enterprise and Amazon EKS Anywhere Bare Metal

One of the most critical requirements for an Application Modernization project is to support workloads running on multiple platforms. In fact, such projects naturally include in their transformation process migrating workloads approach using the hybrid model. Another typical technical decision that commonly comes up is the adoption of Kubernetes as the main platform for the existing services and microservices originated by the modernization project.

Insomnia Stream 2022 06 28 - OAuth2 protected GraphQL Introspection & Schema Fetching

Today on the stream we took a look at how Insomnia's GraphQL implementation handles GraphQL endpoints that are protected by Authentication, such as OAuth2 but also including Basic Authentication (and any others). We got deep into the inner-workings of Insomnia's request sending architecture. A weekly stream focused on Insomnia's open source community.

Insomnia Stream 2022 06 14 - Electron Remote for Plugins, Database Diffing

Today on the stream we looked at a solution for using the (now deprecated) functionality of the Electron Remote package by utilizing the IPC that Electron provides. Later we go through an exercise where we diff the raw database for Insomnia's internals. Fun stuff! A weekly stream focused on Insomnia's open source community.

APIOps in action: 3 months to 48 hours

CMA CGM is a global player in sea, land, air, and logistics solutions, serving 420 of the world’s commercial ports and operating 285 shipping lines with 580 vessels. Supporting such complex international logistics requires a sophisticated and reliable IT infrastructure, underpinned by APIs that unlock the data needed to flow across the ecosystem of internal IT, partners, and customers.

MicroProfile Reactive Messaging | Grace Jansen | IBM | Kongcast Episode 18

In this episode of Kongcast, Viktor talks with Grace Jansen, Developer Advocate at IBM about stateful workloads in a cloud environment, bringing down the monolith, what does 'cloud native' really mean, and how easy it can be to add reactive behaviors to your application using event-driven architecture and tools like Kafka and MicroProfile Reactive Messaging.