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Kong 1.3 Released! Native gRPC Proxying, Upstream Mutual TLS Authentication, and Much More

Today, we are excited to announce the release of Kong 1.3! Our engineering team and awesome community has contributed numerous features and improvements to this release. Based on the success of the 1.2 release, Kong 1.3 is the first version of Kong that natively supports gRPC proxying, upstream mutual TLS authentication, along with a bunch of new features and performance improvements.

Building Metrics Pipeline for High-Performance Data Collection

This is part three in a series discussing the metrics pipeline powering Kong Cloud. In previous posts in this series, we’ve discussed how Kong Cloud collects, ships, and stores high volumes of metrics and time-series data. We’ve described the difference between push and pull models of collecting metrics data, and looked at the benefits and drawbacks of each from a manageability and performance perspective.

10 Ways Microservices Create New Security Challenges

In the current microservices DevOps environment, there are tough new and evolving challenges for developers and teams to consider on top of the more traditional ones. From worsening versions of already common threats to new-generation evolving threats, new perspectives are required on securing microservices. These new perspectives may not be intuitive for many otherwise sophisticated DevOps and data teams.

Cargill Bridges Legacy and Cloud Native with Kong Enterprise

As we continue to expand across new industries and regions, we’re excited to share Cargill’s digital transformation story and how it turned to Kong Enterprise to create a unified API platform across existing legacy and newer cloud native systems. We talked to Jason Walker, senior enterprise architect at Cargill, about their journey to microservices. What was the driver for Cargill’s move to microservices?

Kong Makes it onto Forbes' List of Next-Billion Dollar Startups!

This year has been momentous in Kong’s journey as we have tripled in size, outgrown multiple offices and announced a successful Series C round. Today, we celebrate yet another huge milestone with the news that Forbes has included us in their annual list of Next-Billion Dollar companies. We are honored to receive such recognition and to be on the same list as 24 other ground-breaking companies that I can imagine are as elated as we are right now.

Kong Welcomes Depop as a Customer to the Kong Family!

As we grow our footprint globally, we’re gaining strong momentum in the UK. We recently added several fast-growing, London-based organizations to the Kong Enterprise community. These organizations are turning to Kong to help power their core business applications and accelerate application development as they shift to microservices-driven architectures.

Kong 1.2 Released! Major Performance Improvements and Newly Open Sourced Plugins

Today, we’re excited to unveil the latest release of our flagship open source offering – Kong 1.2! In this release, we’ve made key latency and throughput performance improvements and open sourced some previously enterprise-only plugins to enhance your overall Kong experience.