Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

August 2020

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Automators

Building a tech stack in today’s world means constantly making decisions about whether to automate or abstract challenges, but the goals are always the same – simplicity, security and speed. As organizations embrace myriad technologies, such as Kubernetes, to abstract away DevOps challenges, they also increase the need for automation to help them manage increasingly complex processes across platforms. In this session, Kong’s VP of Product Reza Shafii will explore how organizations can use automation to reduce friction in adopting new platforms, eliminate repetitive, error-prone tasks and increase the overall effectiveness of their development teams.

How Kong and Partner API Integrations Helped Papa John's Achieve Record Sales

It’s not every day that you learn your technology helped a company achieve their highest sales in company history. But that is the story of Kong and Papa John’s. I have always loved Papa John’s for their delicious pizza made with fresh ingredients, but what I also think of is their (incredibly addictive) Special Garlic Dipping Sauce.

Tracing With Zipkin in Kong 2.1.0

There is a great number of logging plugins for Kong, which might be enough for your needs. However, they have certain limitations: Most of them only work on HTTP/HTTPS traffic. They make sense in an API gateway scenario, with a single Kong cluster proxying traffic between consumers and services. Each log line will generally correspond to a request which is “independent” from the rest.