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Monitoring APIs with Prometheus

Have you ever wanted a quick and easy way to monitor your Docker environment? Do you want to have an API monitor with minimal configuration? Well it looks like there has never been a better time to monitor your API as there are currently a plethora of awesome tools out there to help us with monitoring, such as Prometheus and Grafana.

Creating a Seamless Access Experience With the Digital Double

Economics in the digital world has evolved in parallel with those of the physical world — moving from a focus on products to services and, now, experiences. Joseph Pine and James Gilmore first introduced the concept in their book, “The Experience Economy.” There they observed that “getting personal with customers is the DNA of the Experience Economy.”

How To Maximize Your Current On-Premises Technology Investment

On-premises software accounted for 58% of the market share for tech deployment in 2020 and is projected to grow 30% by 2030. While cloud services will likely overtake this deployment method in the years to come, your business might not be able to afford to switch to the cloud anytime soon, especially if predictions about an impending recession come true.

API Error Codes: A Beginner's Primer

When building APIs for the first time, it is important to understand error status codes and how they impact the overall performance of the API. Error status codes are essential for ensuring that the API is functioning correctly, communicating errors and warnings to the user or system, and providing a seamless experience. It is important to understand the different types of error status codes, what they mean, and how to interpret them so that your API will function properly.

Federated API Management: Balancing Agility and Governance

Looking to develop more APIs faster (and securely)? Then you have some different API platform deployment models to consider. In this post, we’ll define and compare the siloed, centralized, and federated API platform deployment models — and dive into why federated API management is key to striking a balance between agility and governance.

Empower Developers, Wow Customers, with Kong.

Empower Developers. Wow Customers. Build delightful customer experiences and unleash developer productivity with Kong, the fastest cloud native API platform. The Future of API Management is Here APIs are the building blocks of modern applications, making up 80% of internet traffic. Take control of these connections across any environment with Kong. Kong helps you stay ahead of customer demand (and the competition) with connected, scaled, and secured applications.

Building a Mock Server from User Traffic in Kubernetes

A mock server can prove useful in many circumstances. Imagine you’re an engineer working on optimizing a feature inside of an existing API that relies on multiple other microservices to function properly. To fully test the optimizations, you’ll have to set up test versions of all the dependencies, which quickly proves to be quite a task in and of itself. This is where a mocks—a server that simulates the behavior of a real server—can be very beneficial.