Alexandra Noonan, software engineer at Segment, recently topped Hacker News with a blog about Segment’s journey to microservices and back again. In this Q&A session with Kong CTO Marco Paladino, Alexandra discusses Segment’s adoption of microservices, its recent move back to a monolith and the unique insights they gained into the principles of software architecture along the way.

Want to take your API to the next level? Then you should give your API an OpenAPI spec. An OpenAPI spec is more than just documentation -- with it, you can leverage your API to generate client code, do automated testing, and more! In this talk, Wordnik founder, Erin Mckean, gives an overview of the universe of OpenAPI tooling and show how you can go from zero to OpenAPI spec in just a few straightforward steps!

Neha Narkhede, who co-created Apache Kafka, co-founded Confluent and is now its CTO, and Marco Palladino sit down for a far-ranging conversation about the history of Kafka. They also discuss trends driving the software industry, strategies for open core businesses, and the challenges of being a CTO. The conversation closes with both CTOs’ advice for engineers aspiring to found companies or become Chief Technology Officers.

Serverless and event-driven computing are gaining traction, providing cost savings in the cloud and more efficient resource utilization on premise. Kong CTO Marco Palladino moderates a panel discussion with industry leaders about the rise of serverless, its interactions with other cloud-native technologies, the challenges of implementing it, and where the field is headed in the future.

Kong CTO Marco Palladino and Principal Engineer Thibault Charbonnier detail exciting product announcements for Kong 1.0

Kong CEO Augusto "Aghi" Marietti outlines why API Management is dead, and details the future of software architecture, APIs and Kong.

Deploying Kong onto Kubernetes has always been an easy process, but integration of services on Kubernetes with Kong was a manual process. That’s why we are excited to announce the Kong Ingress Controller for Kubernetes.

The first annual Kong Summit was a huge success, and we want to share the highlights with you. Subscribe to get notified when talk recordings are published.

Follow Kong CTO and Co-Founder, Marco Palladino, through the setup steps in this demo presentation.