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September 2022

That's a Wrap! What You Missed at Kong Summit

Kong Summit has come and gone! Whether you joined us in San Francisco or missed this year’s big shindig, here are some of the highlights from the event and a round-up of all the Kong news dropped over the past two days. This post will continue to be updated with more details and links to videos from sessions as they’re available.

Kong Expands AWS Offerings with Marketplace Listing and EKS Anywhere

Kong has been hard at work to provide our customers’ the best user experience of running our products in the AWS cloud. We’ve seen tremendous growth in our partnership with AWS in terms of joint solutions (co-build), building awareness through events and workshops (co-market), and growth in the adoption of our solutions (co-sell). In fact, Kong has seen exponential growth in our Kong on AWS business year over year.

Kong and Red Hat: Delivering Seamless Customer Experience

As companies are transforming themselves to compete in the cloud era, there’s renewed emphasis on delivering seamless customer experience, improving IT infrastructure, and releasing applications faster. As companies embark on the cloud adoption journey, Red Hat OpenShift gives developers a greater choice of components to build robust applications.

Kong Insomnia Now Supports Websockets

We’re excited to announce that Kong Insomnia now supports Websocket APIs. This is an important expansion to our API platform and is currently available in Kong Insomnia versions 2022.6.0 and above. The Kong Insomnia team is very thankful for our deeply enthusiastic and engaged community, and providing Websocket API support has been one of the most popular feature requests we’ve seen to date.

Announcing General Availability of Kong Gateway 3.0

Kong Gateway 3.0 is an important milestone that introduces the next evolution of our cloud-native API platform. Both the enterprise and open source editions of Kong Gateway 3.0 are available now from your favorite distribution channels. With Kong Gateway 3.0, we are introducing many powerful features that deliver the following key benefits:

Kong Konnect Adds Support for Multi-Geo, Dynamic Client Registration, Custom Reporting, and More

Christian Heidenreich and Sunny Xia also contributed to this post. We’re excited to announce a new release of Kong Konnect, the end-to-end SaaS API lifecycle management platform. This release introduces a number of brand new features as well as improve existing features that empower you to efficiently publish, consume, secure, analyze, and manage APIs and services across all your applications in any environment. Read on to learn more about the new capabilities in Kong Konnect.

Jenn Bergstorm on Innovations Through Gamification | Kongcast Flash | #KongSummit2022

On this episode of #Kongcast Flash, Jenn Bergstrom, Senior Technical Director, Parsons X - introduces her #KongSummit2022 talk: Building a Culture of Innovation Through Gamification. By attending her session, you will learn l how leaders can build a culture that embraces innovation through activities such as hackathons, capture-the-flag cyber events, Kaggle-like competitions, and other gamified learning events.

Guide to Defense in Depth Security

Security best practices remain a top priority for enterprises, especially as high-profile hacks and cybersecurity breaches pose increased risks. According to the 2022 Morgan Stanley CIO survey, IT spending is expected to reach 4.4%, with cloud computing and security software as the leading verticals. This rapid digital transformation across sectors presents organizations with opportunities, along with some new challenges.

Denis Magda on Geo-Distributed Apps with Kong and Yugabyte | Kongcast Flash | #KongSummit2022

On this episode of #Kongcast Flash, Denis Magda, Head of DevRel at Yugabyte - introduces his #KongSummit2022 talk: Mission (Im)Possible: Building Geo-Distributed Apps with Kong, Kafka, and YugabyteDB. In this talk, you’ll learn about the fundamental design principles for geo-distributed apps using a Slack-like corporate messenger. And you'll study the principles in practice by building the messenger from scratch with Kong, Kafka, and YugabyteDB.

Kong Builders- Sep 7 | Kong Hackathon Edition - Mesh & API Automation Hacks

All of September, we will be featuring the Kong Summit Hackathon with a live stream every Wednesday to help you get started with contributing to Kong! In this episode, Kat Morgan will be showing you how to contribute to Kong with #konggateway and #servicemesh and #gitops hack examples.

Kong Konnect adds Support for Federated Authentication with OpenID Connect and Personal Access Tokens

Our latest release of Kong Konnect augments the security and compliance of the offering through enhanced authentication capabilities. Through the rest of this post, we’ll walk you through each of these features and explore what’s new in this Kong Konnect release.